(Scotland) SNP reveals 'CIA flight' dossier

[Eugene]

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 10:15 GMT

SNP reveals 'CIA flight' dossier

The SNP has published a report on what it believes to be US intelligence flights through
Scottish airports.

The party said the document lists in detail the planes, dates on which they landed and 10 firms
which allegedly operated on behalf of the CIA.

SNP foreign affairs spokesman Angus Robertson has called on the Scottish Executive to investigate.

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The SNP report gives registration numbers of planes and dates the nationalists claim they landed
at Prestwick, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4623210.stm

[rodeodance]

1. what?--not a golf stopover?

[sweetheart]

2. opportunists

The SNP is stuck in the mud, so rather than taking forward serious
issus, they have symbolic issues of nationality. This totally ignores
the masses of undocumented flights between US bases, and really, given
that the UK government is 100% complicit in this all, the SNP is just using this
to play games.

[EuroObserver]

3. "the UK government is 100% complicit"

Certainly looks like it.

Other EU governments also keeping very mum.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Dossier on rendition flights goes to McConnell before debate

http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/54498.html

Dossier on rendition flights goes to McConnell before debate

MICHAEL SETTLE January 18 2006


The most detailed list of suspected CIA ghost flights through Scotland, including the so-called "Guantanamo Bay Express", was last night sent to Jack McConnell ahead of a Scottish Parliament debate today on international strategy.

The dossier, compiled by an unnamed "senior aviation expert", was given to the first minister by Angus Robertson MP, the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster. It includes several names of alleged CIA front companies based in various states across America , details of specific aircraft they operated, and the dates when they landed at Scottish airports.

In a letter to Mr McConnell, Mr Robertson said: "More information is needed to establish whether these flights were transporting people against their will. However, this report provides important details for those who are serious about establishing whether rendition flights took place through Scotland."

The Moray MP insisted the report contained "worrying details" about the alleged intelligence flights. "The planes in question have been subject to diplomatic and parliamentary inquiries in different countries. This report establishes that they did pass through Scottish airports," he said. The Scottish Executive now has a responsibility to pursue this issue like other governments. Continuing with a 'hear no evil, see no evil' policy is just not good enough. In Scotland, we are rightly proud of our criminal justice system. Now it should act and our devolved administration should stand up to be counted."

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