Council of Europe opens probe into CIA prisoner flights

Council of Europe opens probe into CIA prisoner flights

November 23, 2005, 16:24 gmt

A plane suspected of being used by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
© AFP/File Toni Marimon
STRASBOURG (AFP) - The Council of Europe said it was opening a probe into mounting reports that US intelligence used European airports to transit suspected terrorists held secretly outside US territory.

The Council of Europe said it was opening a probe into mounting reports that US intelligence used European airports to transit suspected terrorists held secretly outside US territory.
The pan-European body's secretary general, Terry Davis, announced "a formal inquiry into recent reports suggesting that terrorist suspects may have been secretly detained in or transported through a number of... member states with the possible involvement of foreign agencies".
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Press reports have said Washington's Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret detention facilities in eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Thailand and elsewhere in order to circumvent US laws protecting detainees, particularly restrictions on the use of torture.

Planes allegedly operated by the CIA have been spotted at airports in Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden as well as Morocco.
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http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/int/051123144410.hm6tz6bd.html

the secret prisons.

Can you believe before Bush got in, America was known for being against human rights violations?

Seems our greatest export these days is slogans. Empty slogans.

Whatever it takes.
Dead or alive.
You're either with us or with the terrists.
Saddam is a bad man. He gassed his own people. Clearly he has something to hide.
Mission accomplished.
Freedom is on the march.
A few bad apples.
Stay the course.
We don't torture.
But don't tie our hands in the war on terror, the war that justifies everything.
Whatever it takes.

he's behind this crap.