{"id":1473,"date":"2007-01-25T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/extraordinary-rendition-the-verdict\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T15:18:56","slug":"extraordinary-rendition-the-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/extraordinary-rendition-the-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary rendition: the verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry – missed this yesterday… The [tag]European Parliament[\/tag] has yet to vote on the final report following its investigation into CIA [tag]extraordinary rendition[\/tag] flights in Europe, but finalised it is<\/a> (and you can download it from the temporary committee’s website<\/a> in umpteen different languages).<\/p>\n

In short:<\/p>\n

“It is implausible, on the basis of the testimonies and documents received, that certain European governments were not aware of the activities linked to extraordinary rendition on their territory… [it is] implausible that many hundreds of flights …could have taken place without the knowledge of either the security services or the intelligence service”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quick and easy:<\/p>\n

  • * 10 EU governments knew of the secret (and illegal) CIA flights, and lied to cover up their actions<\/li>\n
  • * Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK criticised for lack of co-operation<\/li>\n
  • * Also evidence of flights in Bosnia, Cyprus, Denmark, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Turkey<\/li>\n
  • * Sanctions should be imposed against them<\/li>\n
  • * More than 1,245 flights since 11th September 2001<\/li>\n
  • * “in the majority of cases [these] involved incommunicado detention and [tag]torture[\/tag]”<\/li>\n
  • * “[there is a] strong possibility that some European countries may have received… information obtained under torture”<\/li>\n
  • * EU foreign policy chief [tag]Javier Solana[\/tag] criticised – “Mr Solana clearly knew more than he revealed to MEPs”<\/li>\n
  • * Council of the [tag]European Union[\/tag] (aka the Council of Ministers) criticised for lack of co-operation<\/li>\n
  • * EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator Gijs de Vries: lacks credibility<\/li>\n
  • * UK<\/strong>: 170 flights positively identified<\/li>\n
  • * Former UK defence minister [tag]Geoff Hoon[\/tag]: Criticised for lack of co-operation<\/li>\n
  • * UK Foreign Office adviser Michael Wood: Shock expressed at his “torture’s OK, m’kay?” legal opinion<\/li>\n
  • * Poland: Singled out for criticism, but no categorical proof of secret CIA prisons in the country<\/li>\n

    More: Deutsche Welle<\/a>, the Independent<\/a>, EU Observer<\/a>, Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray<\/a>, EurActiv<\/a><\/p>\n

    The European Parliament’s Socialist Group (to which the UK’s Labour party MEPs belong….) has backed the report<\/a>, the EPP-ED group has criticised it for being biased and inaccurate<\/a>, so it may still not get through the European parliament without a fight. A lot of people in a lot of governments want this suppressed as much as possible.<\/p>\n

    Not that they really care, of course – it’s not like anyone’s going to be able to force them to act on it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sorry – missed this yesterday… The [tag]European Parliament[\/tag] has yet to vote on the final report following its investigation into CIA [tag]extraordinary rendition[\/tag] flights in Europe, but finalised it is (and you can download it from the temporary committee’s website … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,13,23,20],"tags":[183,178,62,44],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-civil-liberties","category-eu","category-the-war-against-terror","category-usa","tag-civil-liberties","tag-eu","tag-twat","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}