Norway, Sweden, others, question nebulous CIA prisoner flights

[Bluebear]

Concern widened in a clutch of countries in Europe and north Africa over the use of their airports by US intelligence officials to transfer suspected Islamic extremists.

Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden have all been linked to the CIA's use of planes for the transit, or rendition, of prisoners allegedly subjected to extra-judicial detention and torture.

In Olso, the Norwegian government summoned a US embassy official over the landing in Oslo on July 20 of a plane which according to media reports was one of those the CIA used to transport the suspected extremists. According to a foreign ministry spokesman, the official "denied that the plane in question had been used by the American authorities at the time."...

The Swedish government similarly demanded "complete information" from its civil aviation authorities after the TT news agency reported at least two suspected CIA planes had landed at Swedish airports over the past three years and that one of them was used at the US base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba, probably for transporting prisoners.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051116/pl_afp/usattacksprisons_051116182351&printer=1

[bullimiami]

1. didnt they hear w? we dont torture.

the word of the us president isnt good enough any more?

[Bluebear]

2. And isn't that sad?

"the word of the us president isnt good enough any more?"