Post by Shadow on Dec 9, 2005 21:30:43 GMT -5
Prison Planet
The torture methods of the CIA were revealed on Sunday, provoking a new row over US flights carrying alleged terror suspects passing through Britain.
Six 'enhanced interrogation techniques' have been authorised for use by the US intelligence agency in secret prisons in Eastern Europe and on the British island of Diego Garcia. None of them would be legal if used by American authorities inside the US and all are outlawed in Britain.
The torture row escalated as US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice faces tough questioning from German leaders on Monday. New chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to raise the flights issue with Rice.
She will be asked to explain 437 occasions on which American aircraft used German airspace or airports in flights which her critics suspect were used to fly suspects to and from the secret 'black site' prisons at military bases.
Similar flights carrying prisoners in a process known as 'extraordinary rendition' have been regularly recorded in Britain, notably at Scottish airports.
The programme in place since the September 11 attacks involves a fleet of 30 planes flying terrorist suspects around the globe. They have stopped off in the UK more than 200 times.
The torture methods of the CIA were revealed on Sunday, provoking a new row over US flights carrying alleged terror suspects passing through Britain.
Six 'enhanced interrogation techniques' have been authorised for use by the US intelligence agency in secret prisons in Eastern Europe and on the British island of Diego Garcia. None of them would be legal if used by American authorities inside the US and all are outlawed in Britain.
The torture row escalated as US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice faces tough questioning from German leaders on Monday. New chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to raise the flights issue with Rice.
She will be asked to explain 437 occasions on which American aircraft used German airspace or airports in flights which her critics suspect were used to fly suspects to and from the secret 'black site' prisons at military bases.
Similar flights carrying prisoners in a process known as 'extraordinary rendition' have been regularly recorded in Britain, notably at Scottish airports.
The programme in place since the September 11 attacks involves a fleet of 30 planes flying terrorist suspects around the globe. They have stopped off in the UK more than 200 times.