Ireland facilitated CIA kidnappings, says report

IRELAND and 13 other EU member states facilitated the illegal kidnapping and secret jailing of terror suspects by turning a blind eye to US activities, a European Parliament report said yesterday.

In the report, MEPs were highly critical of the Government’s policy of allowing CIA flights to land at Irish airports without random searches.

The report, put together over the past year, said CIA-operated aircraft made 147 stopovers at Irish airports and expressed serious concern about the purpose of the flights, which came from or were bound for countries linked with extraordinary rendition circuits and the transfer of detainees.