Britain admits island used for US rendition flights

BRITAIN’S relations with the US suffered a damaging blow yesterday as the government was forced to admit that two US “rendition” flights transporting terrorist suspects had landed on British soil.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed his “disappointment” following the disclosure that two flights had refuelled on the British Indian Ocean island territory of Diego Garcia in 2002, despite years of denials.

Six years on, one of the suspects involved is still being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay.