The Airport in the Forest: A Transfer Site for Al-Qaida Prisoners
IrishExaminer.com
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Warsaw (Poland):
At midnight on an autumn night two years ago, a mystery Boeing passenger plane with seven people carrying US passports touched down at a little-used airport deep in the pine forests of northeastern Poland, officials say.
Confirmation of the mysterious arrival comes after a human rights group said evidence pointed to Szczytno-Szymany airport as a CIA transfer site for al-Qaida prisoners. Airport officials and border guards said the plane landed at the former military base on September 22, 2003 the date Human Rights Watch said a Boeing 737 that was part of the prisoner transfer scheme was at the airport.
But authorities including the airport's former director denied knowledge of prisoner transfers. New York-based Human Rights Watch says the US government may have used the airport for secret transfers of suspects captured in Afghanistan, citing flight logs and unnamed sources. Polish government officials dismiss the report, and US officials have refused to confirm or deny the claims.
Nov 05, 2005
IrishExaminer.com
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Warsaw (Poland):
At midnight on an autumn night two years ago, a mystery Boeing passenger plane with seven people carrying US passports touched down at a little-used airport deep in the pine forests of northeastern Poland, officials say.
Confirmation of the mysterious arrival comes after a human rights group said evidence pointed to Szczytno-Szymany airport as a CIA transfer site for al-Qaida prisoners. Airport officials and border guards said the plane landed at the former military base on September 22, 2003 the date Human Rights Watch said a Boeing 737 that was part of the prisoner transfer scheme was at the airport.
But authorities including the airport's former director denied knowledge of prisoner transfers. New York-based Human Rights Watch says the US government may have used the airport for secret transfers of suspects captured in Afghanistan, citing flight logs and unnamed sources. Polish government officials dismiss the report, and US officials have refused to confirm or deny the claims.
Nov 05, 2005
