Europe Warned "Rendition" Probe Will Continue
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Europe Warned "Rendition" Probe Will Continue
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June 14, 2006: The Irish Times
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2006/0614/724643837FR14MEPS.html
MEPs to continue CIA rendition investigations
by Seán MacConnell in Strasbourg
European member states were warned yesterday that just because they were
not named in an interim report investigating the use of European
countries by the CIA for extraordinary renditions, that did not mean
they would not be in the future.
Ireland was not named in the interim report of the committee which was
yesterday approved by a majority of the members.
But the chairman of the temporary committee, Carlos Coelho, told a press
briefing that just because countries like Poland and Romania, where
there are alleged illegal detention centres, were not mentioned, it did
not mean an end to the investigation.
"We have six more months work and we are getting new information all the
time, some of it very high grade and we will systematically go through
this until we get to the truth," he said.
The committee accused the CIA of being "directly responsible on several
occasions of extraordinary rendition, illegal seizure, removal,
abduction and detention of terrorist suspects on the territory of member
states, accession and candidate countries," it said.
It added that all of the above actions constituted violations of
fundamental rights under international law.
The chairman said the new information it was gathering included the
logging of 1,800 flights by aircraft which were not bound "for tourist
destinations".
The chairman said it was plausible that certain European countries were
not aware of the activities linked to extraordinary rendition taking
place on their territories but there were clearly cases where
responsible people were turning a blind eye to what was happening.
The committee, which called for the closure of Guantánamo detention
centre, also said it would invite the secretary general of Nato to a
hearing to clarify the possible involvement of its forces in the illegal
detention of six Bosnians who still remain in Guantánamo.
Fianna Fáil MEP Eoin Ryan said no accusations were made against Ireland
concerning flights of rendition and Shannon had not been mentioned in
the report.
"It is my opinion that Shannon airport would be of no service to the CIA
in their flights of rendition," he said.
Simon Coveney, a Fine Gael MEP, said his resolution calling for the
closure of the Cuban-based centre was accepted by the committee.
He said that the US military had made significant efforts to ensure that
detainees were held in better conditions than before but the camp was
still in violation of the rule of law.
© The Irish Times
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