‘Torture flights’ not using Baldonnel air base

CLAIMS that Baldonnel air base is being used by the CIA to re-supply its “torture flights” were last night strongly denied by the Defence Department.

The Government insisted Ireland had been given assurances that no “extraordinary rendition” flights were going through the Air Corp HQ base or anywhere else in the State.

The move followed reports that CIA Gulfstream, Boeing and McDonald DC9 jets, which are alleged to be used to transport terrorist suspects to countries like Egypt where they are tortured, have been refuelling at Baldonnel, Co Dublin.