Ahern ‘convinced’ Shannon used for rendition

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern seemed “quite convinced” at least three US flights involved in so-called extraordinary renditions landed on Irish soil, a confidential diplomatic memo released by Wikileaks has revealed.

Publicly, Mr Ahern has always said he accepted US assurances that the CIA had not used Shannon for rendition operations, which involves the abduction and transfer of a person from one nation to another.

However the memo, from 2007, puts a different slant on things.