Secret Flights
By I’m sure that this is all just an elaborate mole-hunting operation designed to ferret out disloyal continents:
The CIA has run more than 1,000 flights within the European Union since 2001, often transporting terror suspects for questioning overseas, MEPs [Members European Parliament] have said.
The MEPs began a probe after claims the US flew suspects to secret prisons in countries that regularly use torture. The US admits some terror suspects were flown overseas for interrogation, but denies sending them for torture.
Report author Claudio Fava said many EU states had ignored the hundreds of CIA flights that had used their airports. Mr Fava, an Italian socialist MEP, singled out Sweden, Italy and Bosnia, which is not an EU member, for particular criticism.
A string of former detainees have come forward with stories alleging kidnap and transport by the US for interrogation in third countries – a process known as “extraordinary rendition”.
Some have provided detailed accounts of alleged torture carried out in secret prisons outside EU or US jurisdiction.
I wonder how the participation of countries like Bosnia in projects like this will affect their efforts at EU membership. They are in a bit of a pickle; the friendship of the US (and the UK) is certainly important, but risking the irritation of other major European countries and of the European Parliament is a significant problem.