EU Complicit in CIA 'rendition' flights

More and more the last few years, I am seeing criminal behavior at the highest levels in government and business. While all of us agree that the behavior of Germany under Hitler was atrocious and inhumane in many respects, I am seeing this very behavior on the part of the U.S., Great Britain and Israel. The EU has been a more silent partner to all of this, but involved nonetheless. He who is complicit is also guilty.

The Nuremberg Trials at the close of WW2 brought a few people to justice and did attract much attention. Were we today to apply the same rules and standards of the Nuremberg Trials to what the Western Nations are doing in the world, there would be many people found guilty of the same crimes.

Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights

Attempts by European governments to deny knowledge their airports were used by the CIA to fly detainees to facilities where they could be tortured has unravelled. A document obtained by the civil rights group Statewatch confirms that the European Union (EU) agreed to such flights as part of a wider programme of joint security operations with the Bush administration in 2003.

Minutes of confidential talks held in Athens on January 22, 2003, prove that EU officials agreed to allow access to their airports for the United States, and also indicate that the EU was well aware that such an agreement made them complicit in possible war crimes.

EU member states would rather be accused of “irresponsibility” than to be found to have knowingly participated in a crime—hence their being forced to agree to various investigations into renditions. But this has been accompanied by repeated denials of any knowledge of what was going on, despite hundreds of CIA flights being logged by plane spotters across Europe—particularly in Germany and Britain.

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