Records show Diego Garcia link to alleged torture flights (Guardian)

Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday January 4, 2007
The Guardian

A CIA jet flew at least twice to Poland from Kabul in Afghanistan, where the US detained numerous terrorist suspects, new details about aircraft involved in "torture flights" show.

The journeys of the aircraft, a Gulfstream registered N379P, are disclosed in a list of more than 3,000 flight logs obtained by Stephen Grey, an investigative journalist and author of Ghost Plane. The same aircraft flew from Washington via Athens to the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia, the logs show. It is the first time that the British-owned territory, where the US has a large airbase, has been linked to the controversial CIA flights. Though there have been persistent reports in the US that detainees have been secretly held in Diego Garcia, the British government has always dismissed the claims ...

The logs show that the Gulfstream, previously identified as being used by the CIA, flew from Afghanistan in June and July 2003. Later that year, the same aircraft flew from Amman, the Jordanian capital, to Kabul.

The flight plans, which have been obtained from official sources, reveal the extent of the CIA's flights, many of which - including the Gulfstream - have passed through Britain. Many have been used for secretly transporting terrorist suspects to places where they risked being tortured ...

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