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British government admits CIA 'torture' flights landed on UK soil

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/ciarendition.usa

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/ciarendition.usa

The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has admitted for the first time that US planes on "extraordinary rendition" flights carrying terrorist suspects stopped on British soil at least twice.

Until now, the government has said it had no evidence of such "torture taxi" flights.

He told MPs he was "very sorry indeed" that ministers had previously given them the wrong information and said that the US had only alerted the British government to the incidents last week due to "record errors".

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had expressed "deep regret" that the Government was misled, he said.
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4 comments // British government admits CIA 'torture' flights landed on UK soil

  • dirty_mojo
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      dirty_mojo  

    • no offence, but bush also said there were wmds in iraq. and that saddam and bin laden were in cahoots. and that we're not heading toward a recession. and "mission accomplished" in 2003. his word is hardly trustworthy.
      we should not use "unconventional" means. either we should be willing to be subject to any forms of interrogation suspects are subject to, or be against them.
      whats sad is i doubt this will make any waves. or that even if it did, everyone would forget about in a couple of weeks.

    • 5 years ago
  • iamforchange
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      iamforchange  

    • I think the point of this post is that the bush government got caught lying again. So why should we believe anything he says. Because the paper printed a quote certainly doesn't mean he was telling the truth.

    • 5 years ago
  • mjsmith11
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      mjsmith11  

    • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/07/AR2005110700637....

      The United States does not torture people. Get your facts straight.

      "Bush Defends CIA's Clandestine Prisons
      'We Do Not Torture,' President Says

      By Michael A. Fletcher
      Washington Post Staff Writer
      Tuesday, November 8, 2005; Page A15

      PANAMA CITY, Nov. 7 -- President Bush, defending a clandestine U.S. prison system abroad for terrorism suspects, said Monday that his administration would continue to aggressively battle terrorism in sometimes unconventional but always lawful ways.

      Brushing aside international criticism of the CIA-run prisons set up in eight countries, Bush said that the nation is at war with an enemy "that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again. And so, you bet, we'll aggressively pursue them, but we'll do so under the law." Bush, who spoke to reporters during a brief visit to the capital of Panama, also asserted, "We do not torture." "

    • 5 years ago
  • Emily_RS
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