Britain accused on secret CIA flights

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Report says that 170 planes landed
Poland may have hosted secret centre
Britain has allowed 170 secret CIA flights connected to the illegal seizure of terror suspects to make stopovers at its airports, a draft European Parliament report claimed. The number is almost 100 more than previously admitted by ministers and will be used by MPs to demand a full parliamentary inquiry into the practice of extraordinary rendition.

The report, by an Italian Socialist MEP, concluded that at least 1,245 CIA flights had flown into European airspace and that Britain was second only to Germany — which allowed 336 — in the number of stopovers. Ten EU countries were named as allowing stopovers.

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Potentially the most explosive accusation was levelled at Poland, which was said to have allowed the CIA to run a secret detention centre — a so-called “black site — on its soi. Staff from Szymany airport in north-east Poland told of several aircraft landings attended by military vehicles, which were then seen driving to a military training centre. The report concluded that, “in the light of serious circumstantial evidence, a temporary secret detention facility may have been located at the intelligence training centre at Stare Kiejkuty”.

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CIA stopovers

Germany 336
Britain 170
Ireland 147
Portugal 91
Spain 68
Greece 64
Cyprus 57
Italy 46
Romania 21
Poland 11

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2477055,00.html

[AlamoDemoc]

1. Isreal is missing on that list...many of those flights left middle east and and came back as transit

in Israel....

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/781889.html

Planes known to carry CIA terror suspects landed in Tel Aviv
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent

"The Israel Airports Authority has confirmed that planes known to have been used by the CIA to transport suspects to detention and interrogation facilities stopped at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.

According to the British civil liberties organization Statewatch, at least four flights through Tel Aviv occurred between 2003 and 2004.

The data compiled by the organization draws on, among other sources, information from a European parliament committee as well as various European states."

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2. Germany, France, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Israel. on and on - this

makes me sick. I feel sorry for the sad state of minds who agreed to all this. INHUMANITY. THEY ARE ALL PARTNERS IN INHUMANITY.