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Contents : SEARCH February 13 2006 WEB SITE Company Search The Sunday Times - World RELATED STORIES SUNDAY TIMES The Sunday Times February 12 2006 TIMES ONLINE Home Britain World Business Money Sport Comment Revealed: the terror prison US is helping build in Morocco TOM WALKER RABAT AND SARAH BAXTER THE United States is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital Rabat according to western intelligence sources. Travel Entertainment Books Driving Property & Gardens Women Health Jobs Food & Drink Education Student Tech & Net Games Crossword Law Weather Sunday Times TLS Weblogs Site Map SPECIAL REPORTS Poker Healthy Living Digital Economy Business Evolution Power 100 Future Life Management Issues The Art of Travel Men's Style French Film Caf Business Travel The sources confirmed last week that building was under way at Ain Aouda above a wooded gorge south of Rabat s diplomatic district. Locals said they had often seen American vehicles with diplomatic plates in the area. The construction of the new compound run by the Direction de la Securit du Territoire (DST) the Moroccan secret police adds to a substantial body of evidence that Morocco is one of America s principal partners in the secret rendition programme in which the CIA flies prisoners to third countries for interrogation. January 25 2006 White House given a rough handling over treatment of suspects January 24 2006 US 'outsourced' torture January 19 2006 Guantanamo inmates 'helped with London bombs inquiry' November 03 2005 CIA's 'secret jails in Europe for terrorists' BREAKING NEWS World from PA Sharon's condition still critical Leader of new government chosen Editors 'detained in cartoons row' Cartoon row grounds relief copters Slovenia reports bird flu Amnesty International Human Rights Watch and other groups critical of the policy have compiled dossiers detailing the detention and apparent torture of radical Islamists at the DST s current headquarters at Temara near Rabat. A recent inquiry into rendition by the Council of Europe led by Dick Marty the Swiss MP highlighted a pattern of flights between Washington Guantanamo Bay and Rabat s military airport at Sale. French intelligence and diplomatic sources said the most recent such flight was in the first week in December when four suspects were seen being led blindfolded and handcuffed from a Boeing 737 at Sale and transferred into a fleet of American vehicles. Morocco s membership of a so-called coalition of the willing has led to tension within the kingdom where Mohammed VI 42 is trying to suppress a wave of Islamic fundamentalism most powerfully expressed in the Casablanca bombings of May 2003 in which 12 suicide bombers all of them Moroccan killed more than 40 people. More than 3 000 suspected radical Islamists have been arrested since but some of the country s CLASSIFIEDS TRAVEL CARS JOBS ENCOUNTERS PROPERTY Choice of the week ADVERTISEMENT higher-profile Al-Qaeda sympathisers have been released including Abdallah Tabarak a former bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden. SERVICES LATEST ARCHIVE Events listings Search for films thea and comedy events n you E-MAIL BULLETINS While much of the media is said to have been infiltrated by the DST a few publications that dare to question official policy have accused the government of allowing Morocco to become the CIA s dustbin . Donald Rumsfeld the American defence secretary who described Morocco and Tunisia yesterday as long-standing friends and constructive partners in the fight against terrorism is due to visit today. Among the topics expected to be discussed with officials is the opening of a new FBI office in Morocco. SERVICES My Times Shopping Promotions Classified Last Friday the country witnessed its first protests against the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. They were highly organised and controlled but created a sense of apprehension in the capital before Rumsfeld s talks. Mobile Archive Morocco has an estimated 30 000 policemen for a population of 30m and many people seem scared of speaking to strangers. A Sunday Times reporter was photographed by men with mobile phone cameras at least three times last week but was never directly challenged. It s like a web they let you spin away and like that they believe they get more information said the French intelligence source. The presence of minders made asking questions around Ain Aouda almost impossible but at a restaurant adjoining a newly built mosque nearby elderly men supping mint tea while they watched the African Nations Cup were clearly angry about the project. We ve seen nothing but Americans for five months complained one wizened figure before being told by his friends to be quiet. Page 1 Page 2 ALSO IN THIS SECTION Governor Nobody sneaks up on Hillary Congo leader s 169 000 hotel bill Sharon

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