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Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden Published: 05 Feb 2016 13:11 GMT+01:00 Denmark’s justice minister admitted on Friday that the US sent a rendition flight to Copenhagen Airport that was meant to capture whistleblower Edward Snowden and return him to the United States. The revelation that the US landed a private aircraft in Copenhagen intended to capture Snowden in June 2013 was first reported last month by the Danish online media Denfri, but Danish officials initially denied the report. On Friday however it was reported that Justice Minister Søren Pind told parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee that the Danish government did allow the Americans to use both Danish airspace and the airport knowing full well that the aircraft was intended to take a captured Snowden back to the US. “The purpose of the plane’s presence at Copenhagen Airport was apparently to have the ability to transport Edward Snowden to the USA in case he was delivered from Russia or another country,” Pind said in a written statement. As recently as Wednesday, Pind said that he “wasn’t aware of the purpose of the aircraft in question”. Denfri first broke the news after obtaining heavily-redacted documents from the Justice Ministry to follow up on a 2014 report from The Register that revealed that a US government jet previously used on CIA rendition flights was sent to Europe with the goal of nabbing Snowden. That report stated that the flight landed and waited at Copenhagen Airport, something that was never confirmed by Danish authorities. Documents Denfri obtained from the Justice Ministry confirmed that the US-owned Gulfstream aircraft was given permission to land in Copenhagen as Snowden was stranded at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport waiting for Russia to grant him asylum. It had previously been reported that the US sought the help of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish authorities in tracking down the NSA whistleblower. See also: US sought Denmark's help to catch Snowden "The FBI requests that your service immediately notify the necessary and applicable agencies of the below information in the event that Snowden should board a flight from Moscow to one of your respective countries for either transit purposes or as a final destination," a sent that the FBI sent out of the US Embassy in Copenhagen read. In November, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen dismissed calls from Denmark’s left wing to offer the whistleblower asylum. “I have a very hard time seeing what the reasoning would be for parliament to pass a special law taking the extraordinary step of offering an American citizen political amnesty in Denmark,” Rasmussen said. “He is sought for a series of legal violations; that's what he is. And the US is a democratic constitutional state,” he added. Snowden used the Denfri revelations to accuse the PM of “having a secret”: Snowden was recently tipped as a favourite to win this year's Nobel Peace Prizeby Nobel watcher Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo. For more news from Denmark, join us on Facebook and Twitter.

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