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CIA: UK Aided Controversial Rendition Program

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Feb 21, 2008 6:00 am US/Pacific

CIA: UK Aided Controversial Rendition Program

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LONDON (AP) ― The CIA is acknowledging that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite earlier U.S. claims that no such flights had used British airspace or soil since the Sept. 11 attacks.

CIA Director Michael Hayden told agency employees in a message Thursday that information previously provided to the British "turned out to be wrong."

The spy agency reviewed rendition records late last year and discovered that in 2002 the CIA had in fact refueled two separate planes carrying two alleged terrorists on Diego Garcia, a British island territory in the Indian Ocean.

Hayden's message says one of the prisoners was ultimately jailed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and the other was released to his home country.


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