NEWS JUST IN FROM SWEDEN - Sweden launched an investigation after reports that planes used by the US spy agency CIA landed at Swedish airports, the latest in a series of such probes by concerned European nations.
The government said it had opened a probe into a number of flights to and from several airports in the country since 2002.
The decision follows a report by the Swedish news agency TT on Monday that several presumed CIA planes had secretly touched down here. Similar reports have surfaced across Europe including Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain.
A number of those countries have opened inquiries into whether the planes may have been used for the transit of terror suspects allegedly subjected to extra-judicial detention and torture.
In Iceland, where media has claimed CIA planes had landed at least 67 times since 2001, Foreign Minister Geir Haarde said the US response to the allegations had been 'unsatisfactory'.
Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson's office said in a statement it had 'asked the Civil Aviation Administration and the Civil Aviation Authority to investigate the circumstances around flights to and from Swedish airports conducted with aircraft registered in the US.'
The government requested the probe be completed by Dec 8 at the latest, but sources within the two aviation agencies said they expected to finish earlier. Below is one of the suspect planes
An interesting investigative piece is explored by blogger Nur al-cubicle. It looks at the CIA flights that have been transporting prisoners around the world to keep them out of any legal jurisdiction. The investigation relates that on least ten occasions between 22 January 2004 and November 2005 four aircraft, two Boeing 747’s bearing registration numbers N313P and N4476S and two Gulfstream planes with tail numbers N8068 and N85VM had made a stopover at Palma de Majorca airport. These planes have also been reported in many other countries.
The report on http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/ is in several parts but worth reading.
Tags: Morocco, Fes, Jihad, Terrorism,
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