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UK Admits Granting Suspected CIA Aircraft Use of Airfields

HeadlineMar 07, 2006

Here in Britain, the Guardian of London is reporting the government has admitted aircraft thought to be used for the CIA’s transfer of detainees has landed at local military airfields. The practice, known as “extraordinary rendition”, has raised public outcry across Europe over the use of its territory to transfer detainees who face torture. After months of silence on the issue, the British government disclosed the CIA landed 14 times at two bases between October 2003 and May 2004.

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