Report raises questions about Shannon ‘torture’ flights

GOVERNMENT assurances that at least 40 CIA flights through Shannon Airport had nothing to do with the rendition and possible torture of prisoners were rubbished in a high-level report yesterday.

Dick Marty in his interim report for the Council of Europe, said the US had given no categorical assurances about anything except that it did not practice torture on US soil.

More information about the flights, including those landing at Shannon, should be known shortly, as the Swiss lawyer has received details from the EU’s air traffic control centre, and photographs from the EU Satellite Centre.