Rendition flights - Flights could make Ireland terror target

DESPITE Government attempts to play down this country’s involvement in so-called ‘extraordinary rendition’ flights, involving CIA transport of terrorism suspects for torture, Ireland is among 14 European states named as colluding with the United States.

Like it or not, that amounts to a contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights.

According to Swiss Senator Dick Marty, Ireland was used for stopover flights, along with Britain, Portugal and Italy, in what he describes as a “global spider’s web”.