The US Navy has anchored one of its secret prisons in Haitian waters

While the deployment of 10000 US troops in Haiti has been qualified by a number of Latin American political leaders as an invasion and occupation under the guise of a humanitarian relief operation, the arrival of the USS Bataan in Haiti raises even more questions.

Over recent years, this US amphibious assault ship has been converted into a floating secret prison, forming part of the CIA network of "black sites" used for so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques". The ship’s flat hold bottom, designed to accommodate troops for disembarkment, has been equipped with cages. The prisoners are subjected to the same experiments as in Guántanamo.[1]

Having denied it for a long time, the Pentagon eventually acknowledged that the USS Bataan had in fact been used as a prison in December 2001, but that it recovered its normal functions as of January 2002, an allegation which is contested by numerous specialists who claim that it continued to operate as a prison off shore.

It appers highly unlikely that the prisoners were transferred to another location after the earthquake and that the ship was overhauled to allow for the transportation of troops.

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[1] Le secret de Guantánamo (The secret behind Guantánamo), by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network; 28 October 2009.

Source: Voltairenet.org