Continúan los vuelos clandestinos de la CIA a prisiones secretas

Y por supuesto, los "enemigos combatientes" que son secuestrados y llevados a las prisiones secretas en Egipto, Polonia, Jordania y varios otros países, son torturados por meses o años e incluso desaparecidos o muertos. Esta es la "democracia" al estilo americano en el siglo XXI. Fascismo puro.

FOUR CIA jets, two of which were identified last year in a special EU report into the practice of extraordinary rendition, have landed at Shannon Airport in recent days, leading to renewed calls for the Government to ban aircraft suspected of participating in the practice.

Extraordinary renditions are operations to apprehend terrorists abroad and transport them to another state for interrogation, usually without the knowledge of the host government. The procedure was developed by the CIA in the mid-1990s.

At least four suspect aircraft landed at Shannon over the past week. Last Wednesday, one of the jets, registration N475LC, made a refuelling stop lasting half-an-hour. Another plane, N478GS, made a similar stop at the airport on Saturday afternoon. One man, believed to be a US government agent, was seen observing the refuelling process.

The planes, operated by Centurion Aviation Services, a shelf company for the CIA, were identified in the EU report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, which was published in November 2006. Despite this, both jets continue to stop at Shannon.

Late last Sunday night, two more aircraft, N71PG and N54PA, were due in Shannon. Records show that both jets visited numerous airforce bases in the US in recent weeks. However, flight records for N475LC and N478GS are no longer accessible online...

...In recent weeks, it has been revealed that the US government transported prisoners through the British territory of Diego Garcia without apparently informing the British government, and in spite of US government assurances that no prisoners were transported through British territory.

"Even more serious is the statement in the past few days by Manfred Nowak, UN torture investigator, that Diego Garcia was actually used to imprison prisoners captured by the US in Afghanistan or Iraq."