Antoine de Gaudemar | Does Torture Matter to the US?

Liberation editor Antoine de Gaudemar suggests that the Council of Europe's report on CIA activities in Europe will serve as a warning to the US and its allies that human rights violations will not be tolerated in Europe, while Liberation reporter Laurent Mauriac suggests that US public opinion is largely indifferent to these same human rights issues.

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June 8, 2006 -- Yesterday, the Council of Europe's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights released a report on CIA rendition flights. The report contains the names of many of the airports used as transit and staging points that were reported by WMR. [Search "CIA" and "rendition" in WMR archives]. This is the list from the CoE Report:

Category A: "Stopover points"
(points at which aircraft land to refuel, mostly on the way home)
Prestwick
Shannon
Roma Ciampino
Athens
Santa Maria (Azores)
Bangor
Prague
Category B: "Staging points"
(points from which operations are often launched - planes and crews prepare there, or meet in
clusters)
Washington
Frankfurt
Adana-Incirlik (Turkey)
Ramstein
Larnaca
Palma de Mallorca
Baku (Azerbaijan)
Category C: "One-off pick-up points"
(points from which, according to our research, one detainee or one group of detainees was picked up
for rendition or unlawful transfer, but not as part of a systematic occurrence)
Stockholm-Bromma
Banjul
Skopje
Aviano
Tuzla
Category D: "Detainee transfer / Drop-off points"
(places visited often, where flights tend to stop for just short periods, mostly far off the obvious route –
either their location is close to a site of a known detention facility or a prima facie case can be made to
indicate a detention facility in their vicinity)
Cairo
Amman
Islamabad
Rabat
Kabul
Guantanamo Bay
Timisoara / Bucharest (Romania)
Tashkent
Algiers
Baghdad
Szymany (Poland)

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