Flying prisons in our corridor?

RECENT press pictures showed hooded and blindfolded Afghans strapped to the bare metal floor of an aircraft with legs chained and an elaborate network of straps preventing them from sliding.

Flying prisons in our corridor?
Wed, 13 Nov, 2002 - 00:00

They are prisoners (with no protection from either US law or the Geneva Convention) who are still being conveyed by the US military to the world’s most secretive and sinister internment camp at Guantanamo, Cuba.

Are these planes landing at Shannon for refuelling while carrying their indescribable cargo of human misery?

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