Logs Show Trips by “Torture Flight” Jets
A CIA jet flew at least twice to Poland from Kabul in Afghanistan, where the US detained terrorist suspects, new details about aircraft involved in “torture flights” show.
The journeys of the aircraft, a Gulfstream registered N379P, are disclosed in a list of more than 3000 flight logs obtained by Stephen Grey, an investigative journalist and author.
The same aircraft flew from Washington via Athens to the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia, the logs show. It is the first time that the British-owned territory, where the US has a large airbase, has been linked to the controversial CIA flights.
British Foreign Office minister Kim Howells recently told MPs that the “US authorities have repeatedly given us assurances that no detainees, prisoners of war or any other persons in this category are being held on Diego Garcia, or have at any time passed in transit through Diego Garcia or its territorial waters or airspace”.
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