Marty Report: Europe 'aided US in CIA flights' - BBC

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5054426.stm

Also: From logistics to turning a blind eye: Europe's role in terror abductions - The Guardian

How does it land at airports without permission? You can land, and as long as the flight is quarantined(no one gets off or on the plane), you do not have to detail what your cargo is...but you still have to have permission to land. And just how stupid am I supposed to believe those countries are that a ghost plane from a foreign government, carrying unregistered cargo, can request to land, quarantine itself, re-supply itself, and then take off for parts unknown without the host airport asking questions? without wondering? without suspecting?

"Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know."

Plausible deniability is just covering your own ass.

and that might actually be true. Consider another recent case: an Israeli general was coming to the UK for a lecture of similar, and a British human rights group got a warrant for his arrest to do with what he'd done in Palestine. The Israeli embassy heard about the warrant, turned up at Heathrow airport, and boarded the plane to advise him not to get off. Though police were waiting with the warrant to arrest him when he got off, they weren't allowed to board the plane to do it; so he stayed on it, it refuelled, and returned to Israel.

I expect someone in authority assumed there could be abductees on the planes, but it would seem to be standard practice that you don't have to give a list of people or cargo on a plane if it's just refuelling. Since not every CIA flight will have abductees on board, at any one time you can get away with saying "I presume it has CIA personnel on board" - even if it's going to or coming from Afghanistan. It's only when you get a complete list of the plane movements as this report has done that you can say a flight was probably used to move those the CIA had kidnapped.

stop that does not involve assistance from the host airport...and the cargo ( which includes people) does not have to be made known...so not asking for a manifest is SOP. I know this to be true. Calling such a flight "quarantined" is just military slang for a secured flight (no one boards..no one gets off)...I used the the military slang. Though even on a secured flight, passengers can leave the plane and go into a secured area..(without revealing their identities)...but that's another story. Course, leaving the plane could be a part of the "staging process" mentioned in the article.

Even still...the pattern itself would raise questions I would think...but then maybe I'm just suspicious. A known flight plan...start/destination...would heighten the speculation...seems to me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5054426.stm

Any denial by the UK Goverment is as good as saying they don't know who is flying in and out of the UK. Fat chance they've got of catching any would be terrorists.