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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (51141)	12/1/2005 11:07:37 AM
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80 CIA planes visited UK Posted: 12/01 From: Source It was revealed that 300 CIA flights have touched down at European airports, the Guardian newspaper has reported. The British newspaper has seen copies of the flight logs showing that Britain came second only to Germany in the number of flights allowed permission to land in violation of European laws. The CIA has been operating a covert network of detention centres around the world, where reports indicate several people have disappeared and even been killed. Several European countries have now launched investigations into whether the CIA flights transported prisoners and several police forces in Britain face legal challenges to force them to investigate if they do not start an urgent investigation. The British Prime Minister, leading a parliamentary dictatorship boycotted by the majority of voters in the last elections, has led a government that has been a constant support to the illegal US war on Iraq and the so-called "war on terrorism". On Tuesday the British foreign minister, Jack Straw, acting on behalf of the European Union, asked the United States (US) to clarify whether planes containing terror suspects - known as "rendition" flights - had stopped off in Europe. He also raised the allegations made by Human Rights Watch earlier this month about covert interrogation centres. So far the US has refused to comment, matching the stony silence on whether the US President had ordered the boming of satellite television channel Jazeera, with the US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice under pressure and promising to comment ahead of an upcoming tour of Europe next week. The Guardian's survey of flight logs taken from 26 CIA planes reveals a far higher level of activity than previously known. The CIA visited Germany 96 times. Britain was second with more than 80 flights by CIA-owned planes, although when charter flights are added the figure rises to more than 200. France was visited just twice and neutral Austria not at all, according to the logs, which also reveal regular trips to eastern Europe, including 15 visits to the Czech capital Prague. While the logs show unprecedented CIA activity, they do not show which planes were involved in prisoner transfers. In October and December 2003 a CIA Boeing flew from British Royal Airforce Base Northolt to Tripoli in Libya while the CIA and MI6 (Britain's Secret Intelligence Service) were negotiating with Libya over its 'weapons of mass destruction' programme. In January 2004 the same Boeing was allegedly involved in shipping suspects to a US prison in Afghanistan. The European Council has appointed a special investigator and is examining possible human rights violations by member countries. The European Union has launched an inquiry and the Austrian government has asked the US to explain a US C-130 Hercules that flew into its airspace. The flight logs were obtained from Federal Aviation Administration data and sources in the aviation industry." The Guardian report is at: /z.htm?http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1654728,00.html mathaba.net