A European Parliament delegation was in Berlin to find out to what extent the German government and secret services turned a blind eye to US practices to deport detainees to other continents via European territory.
The deportation of terror suspects by the CIA and the involvement of European countries in such deportation cases were at the center of investigations carried out by a special inquiry panel of the European Parliament in Berlin on Tuesday.
US president George W. Bush recently admitted the use of secret prisons outside US jurisdiction. The question that Europe has to clarify is to what extent governments and intelligence agencies helped the CIA detain and deport terror suspects.
A delegation from the European Parliament's inquiry panel looking into the issue spent Tuesday talking to German parliamentarians and NGOs to try to find out more about the activities of the German government and secret services regarding such deportations.
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