EU assembly must reopen "rendition" inquiry

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Source: Reuters

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The European Parliament must reopen its inquiry into secret CIA transfers of terrorism suspects in Europe after Britain's admission that the United States used its territory in the so-called renditions, an EU lawmaker said.

Britain, after maintaining for years it was unaware of a British link to such flights, said on Thursday Washington had now told it two planes with detainees refuelled at a U.S. base on the British island of Diego Garcia in 2002.

Claudio Fava, who authored a highly critical European Parliament report on CIA secret flights and prisons last year, said follow-up was necessary.

"Yesterday's revelations confirm that the European Parliament has a moral duty to continue its inquiry," Fava told Reuters in Rome. "... We still don't know everything that we have the right to know about this issue."

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