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| World Home » Current Affairs » | Sat. Nov 22, 2008 |
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Italy, Sweden question CIA for kidnapping their citizens to other countries MIL/NYT, May 31, 2005. Scott Shane, Stephen Grey, Margot Williams, Shane Smithfield, N.C.- Scott Shane, Stephen Grey, Margot Williams and Mr.Shane reveal in New York Times in a story against CIA which appeared on 31 May under the caption "C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights". It is a thrilling story of the CIA how they use airplanes of Aero Contractors Ltd.. They narrate that the plane takes off from Johnston County Airport from Smithfield, NC and then it disappears over the scrub pines and fields of tobacco and sweet potatoes. The New York Times writes that nothing about the sleepy Southern setting hints of foreign intrigue. Nothing gives away the fact that Aero's pilots are the discreet bus drivers of the battle against terrorism, routinely sent on secret missions to Baghdad, Cairo, Tashkent and Kabul. When the Central Intelligence Agency wants to grab a suspected member of Al Qaeda overseas and deliver him to interrogators in another country, an Aero Contractors plane often does the job. If agency experts need to fly overseas in a hurry after the capture of a prized prisoner, a plane will depart Johnston County and stop at Dulles Airport outside Washington to pick up the C.I.A. team on the way. Aero Contractors' planes dropped C.I.A. paramilitary officers into Afghanistan in 2001; carried an American team to Karachi, Pakistan, right after the United States Consulate there was bombed in 2002; and flew from Libya to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the day before an American-held prisoner said he was questioned by Libyan intelligence agents last year, according to flight data and other records. While posing as a private charter outfit - "aircraft rental with pilot" is the listing in Dun and Bradstreet - Aero Contractors is in fact a major domestic hub of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret air service. A legendary C.I.A. officer and chief pilot for Air America, the agency's Vietnam-era air company, founded the company in 1979 and it appears to be controlled by the agency, according to former employees. Behind a surprisingly thin cover of rural hideaways, front companies and shell corporations that share officers who appear to exist only on paper, the C.I.A. has rapidly expanded its air operations since 2001 as it has pursued and questioned terrorism suspects around the world. The authorities in Italy and Sweden have opened investigations into the C.I.A.'s alleged role in the seizure of suspects in those countries who were then flown to Egypt for interrogation. According to Dr. Georg Nolte, a law professor at the University of Munich, under international law, nations are obligated to investigate any substantiated human rights violations committed on their territory or using their airspace.
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