UK launches rendition probe
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The United Kingdom is launching an investigation into the suspicions of it's aiding the United States in rendition.
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(LONDON) — Lawmakers pledged Sunday to study the movements of planes and ships traveling to the remote British outpost Diego Garcia amid persistent suspicion it is used by U.S. authorities to detain or transfer terrorism suspects.
Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee said it plans a thorough investigation of the use of the Indian Ocean island, which hosts a U.S. military base. Britain leased Diego Garcia, which is halfway between Africa and Southeast Asia, to the United States, and in 1971 barred anyone from entering the islands except by permit.
The United States initially denied using the island for extraordinary rendition flights. However, it acknowledged in February that it had misled the British government and that two suspects had been on flights that stopped to refuel on Diego Garcia en route to Guantanamo Bay and Morocco in 2002.
Credit: Time Magazine Online
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(LONDON) — Lawmakers pledged Sunday to study the movements of planes and ships traveling to the remote British outpost Diego Garcia amid persistent suspicion it is used by U.S. authorities to detain or transfer terrorism suspects.
Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee said it plans a thorough investigation of the use of the Indian Ocean island, which hosts a U.S. military base. Britain leased Diego Garcia, which is halfway between Africa and Southeast Asia, to the United States, and in 1971 barred anyone from entering the islands except by permit.
The United States initially denied using the island for extraordinary rendition flights. However, it acknowledged in February that it had misled the British government and that two suspects had been on flights that stopped to refuel on Diego Garcia en route to Guantanamo Bay and Morocco in 2002.
Credit: Time Magazine Online
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It makes you wonder what they get away with when stuff like this breaks. For every injustice we uncover, are there five left undiscovered?
To illustrate that point, I thought I'd include a link to an article by John Pilger about Diego Garcia which has one horrible story to tell in itself.
The inhabitants of the island were rounded up, forced onto a boat and dropped off in Madagascar where they have lived in poverty until this day. All because the United States wanted a military base in that area, and the British offered them the island of Diego Garcia.-
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- phillyharper
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What can one say about an administration willing to "BS" even it's closest allies to further hidden agendas?
Go get 'em, UK, and Godspeed.
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