Foreign Office Admits Terror Flight Did Land at Prestwick Calls for Details of Other Rendition Cases
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A SCOTTISH airport was used by the US to transport a terror suspect back to America in a so-called rendition flight, the government admitted for the first time last night.
Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, has insisted only two such US flights - used to transfer detainees between countries for interrogation - have made stopovers in Britain since Labour came to power in 1997; none since George W Bush took office in 2001. Details of one flight were leaked in a government memo in January.See the full content of this document
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Foreign Office Admits Terror Flight Did Land at Prestwick Calls for Details of Other Rendition Cases
In a parliamentary answer published yesterday, Kim Howells, the Foreign Office minister, revealed Mohammed Rashed, who committed the world's first terrori...
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