MPs call for inquiry into government's role in CIA flights

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Opposition parties today called for a full public inquiry into "extraordinary rendition" following a scathing EU report that accused the British government of obstructing investigations into the controversial flights.

The Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National party jointly attacked the government for its "complicity" with the US government over the practice, whereby secret CIA flights transferred detainees to locations where they risked being tortured.

The Lib Dems' foreign affairs spokesman, Michael Moore, said: "It is damning to learn that the Foreign Office believes using information extracted under torture is not banned under international law, particularly when the House of Lords has ruled otherwise.


"The government has obstructed all attempts at scrutiny on this issue," he added.

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