Report: Jordan interrogates CIA suspects

AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Former U.S. officials say Jordan interrogated suspects for the CIA even as the State Department cited allegations of torture in that country.

Since 2000, Jordan's powerful spy agency, the General Intelligence Department, secretly has detained and interrogated at least 12 non-Jordanian terrorism suspects at the request of the CIA, sources told The Washington Post in a story published Saturday.

The GID's building in Amman served as a station for CIA prisoners captured in other countries and then kept in Jordan a few days or several months before being moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or elsewhere in the world, the Post reported.

The White House has said it does not hand terrorism suspects to countries that are likely to abuse them. The U.S. State Department, however, in its yearly report on human rights, has cited widespread allegations of torture by Jordan's security agencies, the Post reported.