Minister admits 'rendition' planes used RAF bases

[lostexpectation]

Minister admits 'rendition' planes used RAF bases
· Government breaks silence on CIA flights
· Aircraft landed at Brize Norton and Northholt

Richard Norton-Taylor
Tuesday March 7, 2006
The Guardian

The government last night admitted for the first time that aircraft suspected of being used by the CIA to transport detainees to secret interrogation centres had landed at British military airfields.

After months of refusing to answer questions from MPs or the media, it disclosed that two aircraft known to have been chartered by the CIA landed 14 times at RAF Northholt, west London, and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire between October 2003 and May 2004.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1725223,00.html

[leftchick]

1. and gonzo is there today saying they don't exist...

with a straight face...

LONDON - The U.S. attorney general defended his country's treatment of terror suspects against criticism from Europe and elsewhere, saying Tuesday that the United States abhors torture and respects the rights of detainees.

Alberto Gonzales also said the U.S. did not transport terrorism suspects to nations where it was likely they could be tortured.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060307/ap_on_re_eu/britain_gonzales