European collusion with CIA ‘extraordinary rendition’ and ‘black sites’

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The Council of Europe’s (CEO) legal affairs and human rights committee has produced a report on Europe’s involvement in ‘extraordinary rendition’ and ‘black sites’ following an investigation launched last November by its chairman, Dick Marty. The report is damning and shows that 14 European countries including the UK have been colluding with the CIA, from abducting people to providing logistics or just turning a blind eye. He describes the rendition circuit as a "spider's web spun across the globe".

The UK stands accused of not only allowing the use of British airspace and airports, but of providing information that was used during the torture of one suspect. The report adds that there is strong evidence to suspect two European states, Poland and Romania, of permitting the CIA to operate secret prisons on their soil, despite official denials.
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This is a breakdown of the collusion of the European countries:

Countries which provided staging posts for rendition operations:
Spain
Turkey
Germany
Cyprus

Countries which allowed the rendition of their residents from their soil:
Italy
Sweden
Bosnia
Macedonia

Countries which provided stopovers for CIA planes:
Britain
Ireland
Portugal
Greece

Countries suspected of having allowed the operation of secret CIA detention centres:
Romania
Poland

Speaking of America’s “new legal concepts” which have left terrorist suspects without their fundamental legal rights, Mr Marty said:

"This legal approach is utterly alien to the European tradition and sensibility, and is clearly contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

This is a damning indictment of both Europe and the USA and directly contradicts the numerous protestations by members of the British Government including Tony Blair that they knew nothing about these CIA activities. Blairwatch has much more on these false denials of any knowledge of British collusion.

*UPDATE*

The full report can be seen here (via the Curious Hamster who has a very good post on this issue). You can also see Tony Blair do his best to evade questions on rendition at PMQs here.
Also, via the comments, Reykjavik Transit has more. It's well worth reading the whole site. Thanks Gary.

Tags: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Blair