Thursday, December 01, 2005

CIA made 300 secret flights from Europe



We've known about these flights for some weeks now, but now we are getting more specific information: How many flights, and from where in Europe, and some of the destinations. As more and more information comes to light, it is becoming apparent just how many secret transfers from the U.S. and Europe for torture activity has been going on, besides the thousands on a local basis in the Middle East.


The transatlantic row over the secret transfer of terror suspects by the Bush administration took a new twist yesterday when it emerged that more than 300 flights operated by the CIA had landed at European airports.According to flight logs seen by the Guardian, Britain was second only to Germany as a transit hub for the CIA, which stands accused of operating a covert network of interrogation centres in eastern Europe. Several European governments have launched urgent investigations into whether clandestine CIA flights were used in the aftermath of September 11 to transfer Islamist prisoners to third countries where they could be interrogated beyond the reach of international law.

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