European Parliament investigators say the CIA conducted more than 1,000 undeclared flights over European territory during the past five years. The rendition flights allegedly moved suspected terrorists from the Middle East to other regions. But not all lawmakers are convinced that alleged CIA flights took place.
Nice. So, in the very first paragraph, the Voice of America article casts doubt on the "old countries'" findings. Here's more from the article:
The latest allegations are part of a first interim report into alleged CIA activities published by a special European Parliament investigative committee.
Italian lawmaker Giovanni Claudio Fava, a committee member who drafted the report, says the apparent CIA flights over European territory violated international law. He said there was evidence that the alleged flights then flew on to countries that have used torture. Fava also charged the CIA with kidnapping and illegally detaining alleged terrorists on the territory of EU member states.
Well, it's not America's only violation of international law--just the only violation they're being called on at present.
Either way, it's nice to see someone standing up to this giant America-colored blanket that the USG is spreading around the world.
And to think I used to believe in my country. Now they're being accused of kidnapping people, transporting them to countries where torture is legal, letting locals do the torturing and doing it all without even getting the permission of local European governments that, let's face it, would probably roll over and let the USG do whatever it wanted, anyway.
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