The Danish Government refuse Rendition Flights the use of their airspace, but Jack Straw and HMG still have 'ways of making you

Hat Tip to Martin Stabe for turning up this nugget.

The American Central Intelligence Agency can no longer use Danish airspace for flights to transport suspected terrorists around the world.

The government has told the United States that it is opposed to the unauthorized flights, Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller said.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made it quite clear to U.S. officials that Denmark does not want its airspace used for purposes that are in conflict with international conventions"...
Reports surfaced in May that civilian aircraft secretly registered to the CIA had been sighted over Denmark. Human rights organizations claim that the planes are used to transport terror suspects to places where torture is conducted.

Jack Straw, and HMG, it would appear, have no such qualms.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said Britain cannot ignore intelligence from prisoners who civil liberty groups complain have been subjected to torture. Human rights groups and the Red Cross have condemned the use of secret jails, while the UN says it will investigate the US's abuse of its "high-value" detainees, who have not been seen or heard of since their capture.

A senior officer close to the London investigation said: "We obviously need to know what threat remains and we are asking all our international allies for help, even if the standards of their interrogation methods are not as scrupulous as our own. Needs must, I fear."

by bedblogger on Aug 31,

by bedblogger on Aug 31, 2005 - 01:51 AM
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Would Blair, Straw and the "senior officer" feel diferently if it was their kids who had the electrodes to their bollocks or their mum under house arrest/collective punishment/boiled in oil. There is often a whiff of racism with our global administration's policies. So long as it is brown people who are being boiled, well, ce la vie.

What will the reaction be if an innocent, tenuously connected caucasion westerner had the same things done to them...sorry, I'd forgotten the reason we destroyed Fallujah for a minute.