Oct. 26, 2006 - Oct 26 Guardian UK: CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights - NC's Aero mentioned again
The Guardian reveals that torture flight pilots (like some from NC's Aero) lived it up in luxury motels after delivering their victims to foreign countries to be tortured.
One victim described in this article was tortured for 2 years, and then "disappeared" to Guantanimo Bay for as long as US President Bush decides.
Germany offered access to prisoner in Morocco if it quelled opposition
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday October 26, 2006
The Guardian
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal...
More damning evidence - thousands of pilot logs to flood the internet this week:
The CIA used planes of Air America, a group of private companies it secretly owned, and a second company, Aero Contractors. A CIA Gulfstream V jet, frequently used for the secret rendition of prisoners, flew to Diego Garcia, the British Indian Ocean territory where the US has a large base, the book says. Grey plans to publish more than 3,000 logs of the CIA flights on the internet this week...
Pilots living it up in luxurious motels while suspects await torture
CIA pilots, sometimes using false identities and whose planes regularly passed through Britain, ran up huge bills in luxury hotels after flying terrorist suspects to secret locations where they were tortured. ..
...On one occasion, CIA pilots and crew lived it up in Majorca after rendering Benyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian brought up in Notting Hill, west London, to Afghanistan where he was tortured. ..
Following 2 years of torture, one victim was "disappeared" to Guantanamo Bay
Benyam was detained in Pakistan early in 2002, and then flown to Morocco, where he says he suffered appalling torture. He is being held at Guantαnamo Bay.
....Benyam has said in a statement to his lawyer that he was tortured for more than two years after being questioned by US and British officials
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