(Scotland) 'Torture flight' in city landing claim

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'Torture flight' in city landing claim
ADAM MORRIS


A CIA "torture flight" aeroplane which regularly visited Guantanamo Bay landed at Edinburgh Airport on its way from Afghanistan to the United States, according to a new report.

The civil rights charity Reprieve said it had evidence which showed one of the planes at the centre of the controversial "rendition" flights stopped in the Capital - and also highlighted a second "suspicious" landing.

The refuelling stopover was made on a flight from Kabul to Washington on November 25, 2002, at the height of the Afghanistan war.

Reprieve has spent two years compiling evidence about the so-called torture flights, which are said to have taken prisoners from conflict spots to the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Its report, based mainly on aeroplane companies' flight logs and prisoners' testimonies, identifies more than 100 suspect flights that landed in Scotland.

It is believed the flight which landed in Edinburgh is more likely to have been carrying CIA interogators home to the United States rather than transporting prisoners.

The aircraft involved - the N85VM Gulfstream IV - is said by Reprieve to have flown to Guantanamo Bay on at least 51 occasions between June 2002 and January 2005.


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