Ukraine Implicated in CIA Renditions

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Source: Associated Press

An EU investigator said Wednesday he has evidence to suggest that a Ukrainian airstrip was used by CIA-operated planes involved in the U.S. extraordinary rendition program.

Giovanni Fava said he was also looking into possible CIA use of a military facility at a Ukrainian base. Fava, an Italian member of the European Parliament, drafted a report last year identifying more than 1,000 secret CIA flights with stopovers on European territory since 2001. He identified several of them as being used to transfer terror suspects.

Ukraine's Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press, dismissed Fava's statements on the use of Ukrainian airspace by CIA planes and the use of a military base, calling them ``nonsense.'' He declined further comment.

CIA Spokesman Mark Mansfield declined to comment directly on the charges regarding Ukraine and extraordinary renditions - moving terrorism suspects from country to country.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_re_eu/eu_cia_secret_prisons_1

[rcsl1998]

1. Does This Help Explain...

...the 'Orange Revolution' ??? Or was that entirely a bona-fide Ukrainian grassroots movement?

[TheLastMohican]

5. you got that one right

The whole Uschenko-Chumachenko installation is right from the PNAC book.

However, I doubt this report is true. Ukraine doesn't have obscure landing strips good enough so that CIA planes could land on them and nobody would take notice.
And Russia is watching every Ukrainian slip, and they slip very very often these days.

[DCKit]

2. It's the new spice trade circuit....

suspected terrorists --> drugs --> cash --> corporate sponser.

I know I've missed a few obvious opportunities, but you get the drift.

[sam sarrha]

3. here is good buddy of our torture monkey pResident.... >Link>>

there are graphic photos of torture if you scroll down on this article
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3943.htm

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27873.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1146979,00.html

and a plane used to kidnap citizens in other countries and take them to places like uzbekistan.

this one crashed and had 3.3 TONS OF COCAINE on it

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/09/crashed-drug-plane-o.html

http://www.madcowprod.com/10092007.html

[DCKit]

4. Hah!!! Look ^