'No secret prison here'
Representatives of the Foreign Ministry and US Embassy yesterday rejected any suggestion that Thailand had hosted one of the secret prisons that US President George W Bush acknowledged this week.
In a speech on Wednesday, the US president admitted for the first time that the Central Intelligence Agency had operated secret prisons outside of the United States to detain and interrogate terrorist suspects. Foreign Ministry deputy spokes-man Kittikhun Chartprasert said yesterday that, despite strong speculation, Thailand never had one of these so-called black sites.
Supalak Ganjanakhundee The Nation
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