UN torture expert calls for Shannon search of US planes used for rendition

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http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=182146588&p=y8zy47z94


The Irish Government must search US planes landing at Shannon Airport to establish whether they are carrying terrorist suspects, an United Nations expert on torture said tonight.

Amnesty International and other human rights groups claim the CIA is ferrying prisoners through the Mid-West hub en route to interrogation camps in other countries.

The Government said it has received repeated assurances from US authorities that nothing untoward was taking place on US aircraft stopping to refuel in Shannon.

But UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak today said in Dublin: “I think there is so much evidence that flights have also been used for rendition purposes so I would say that for the future there should be preventive measures to search these planes to make sure that they are not used for rendition purposes.”

[babylonsister]

1. If not already, we will soon be known as the country who is not to

be trusted. That will be another of dimson's legacies.

[0007]

4. I think....I think we'd reached that level.

[magellan]

2. Definitely. Search them.

Then we'll see if CIA planes keep landing at Shannon.

[leftchick]

3. I can see it now

an armed resistance on a Shannon tarmac between the US CIA stooges and the Shannon security. It does not sound pretty. :(

[Cleita]

5. I hope the Irish do so, however, would this cause our

gestapo to put the prisoners on ships instead?