Rendition Planes Land at Shannon, Dublin, Sligo, Cork and Knock

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Sunday November 25, 2007 05:14

by Seán Ryan

Planes used by CIA war criminals in their illegal rendition program have landed all over Ireland.

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Planes that were frequently used by the CIA in their inhumane and highly illegal Extraordinary Rendition missions have landed all over Ireland. These flights have not been confined to Shannon Airport. These planes have landed at Shannon, Dublin, Sligo, Cork and have even touched down at Knock Airport.

This morning in the Times there is an article that releases more information on these illegal flights. It tells us that the US have violated international law with the permission of many European States. It also speaks of a secret deal agreed by all NATO members on October 4th 2001 where "blanket overflight clearences for the United States and other allies' aircraft for military flights related to operations against terrorism." Here's the Times article:- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/arti...2.ece

We know that the US were given carte blanche with regard to their crimes against humanity by the Irish government. Bertie Ahern says as much when in an interview with Shannon Activist Conor Cregan on the 18/2/06 he said that he trusted Condoleeza Rice with regard to CIA planes landing in Shannon. If one reads between the lines of Bertie's broken English, we are told that even though we refer to ourselves as a sovereign nation, we do not call the shots when it comes to who and what can use our country to facilitate crimes against humanity. Details of Conor's interview can be found at:- http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74341 and a video of the interview itself can be found at:- http://publish.indymedia.org/media/2006/02//833676.wmv

I've copied the flight logs that are relevant to Ireland from the ghostplane web site. These logs only cover flights between 11/1/2001 and 15/02/2006. The ghostplane web site can be found at:- http://www.ghostplane.net/

I'm pretty sure that these logs are incomplete. I'm also pretty sure that the noose is beginning to close on those who committed crimes against humanity and those of us who facilitated them.

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