18 December 2005
Protest over 'prisoner flights'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4538444.stmAmnesty International has claimed that planes refuelled in Scotland after transferring detainees to countries where they risked torture.
It said it had information about two flights in 2001 and one in 2002 where planes had landed at Prestwick after taking detainees to Jordan and Egypt.
15 December 2005
Call for 'prisoner flights' probe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4532644.stmAmnesty International has claimed CIA flights refuelled in Scotland hours after transferring detainees to countries where they risked torture.
17.12.05
CIA rendition flights at Prestwick Airport confirmed
http://www.uk-airport-news.info/prestwick-airport-news-171205.htmAmnesty International yesterday told how one terror suspect was allegedly abducted in Pakistan and taken to Jordan, two were flown from Sweden to Cairo and the fourth was taken from Indonesia to Cairo on board the same Gulfstream V turbojet, which on all three occasions subsequently flew to Prestwick airport to refuel.
However, there is no evidence to suggest that any terror suspects were on board the aircraft, which it is claimed was chartered by the CIA, when it landed on Scottish soil.
Press release, 12/15/2005
UK: CIA rendition flights used UK airfields
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR450592005Records show that three of these flights were directly connected to known cases of rendition:
On 23 October 2001, witnesses saw Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed being bundled on board a Gulfstream V, registration N379P, by a group of masked men. The plane flew Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed to Jordan. The following day,
the Gulfstream flew to Glasgow Prestwick to refuel, then back to Dulles International near Washington DC. Amnesty International has repeatedly requested information from the US authorities about the current whereabouts and legal status of Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, but has received no reply.
On 18/19 December 2001, according to an inquiry conducted by the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsmen, the Gulfstream V took Ahmed Agiza and Mohammed al-Zari from Sweden to Cairo. Amnesty International's records show that the plane had made several
trips between Cairo and Prestwick earlier in the month, and stopped to refuel at Prestwick after leaving the two detainees in Cairo, where they were reportedly tortured. In March 2005, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman in Sweden, having reviewed the Swedish government’s role in the transfer to Egypt of the two detainees, concluded that the "the Swedish Security Police lost control of the situation at the airport and during the transport to Egypt. The American security personnel took charge… Such total surrender of power to exercise public authority on Swedish territory is clearly contrary to Swedish law."
On 12 January 2002, according to Indonesian security officials, the Gulfsteam V, N379P, took Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni from Jakarta to Cairo. Amnesty International records confirm previous media reports that when the
plane left Cairo, it flew to Prestwick to refuel. Iqbal Madni has since been returned to US custody, and is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He does not have a lawyer, and other detainees have said in the last month that he is in poor condition and "at risk of losing his mind".
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