UN: British soil used for rendition
3/3/08
The United Nations special rapporteur on torture says he has credible evidence that the US used a British territory for the secret detention and transportation of terror suspects. Manfred Nowak’s assertion contradicts statements by the UK and US governments that Diego Garcia island was used merely as a refuelling stop for “renditions”. Nowak said on Sunday that he had received information about detentions on the British island from multiple sources. He said detainees and other sources had told him “quite a long time ago” that suspects were sent to the remote outpost and kept there between 2002 and 2003
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E02A7820-2863-41B0-9854-A21B438D463F.htm