Editing Extraordinary rendition (section)

==== Extraordinary renditions and black sites in Europe ====
[[File:CIA illegal flights.svg|thumb|upright=2.0|Alleged "extraordinary rendition" illegal flights of the CIA, as reported by ''[[Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)|Rzeczpospolita]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rp.pl/artykul/292283.html |title=Politycy nie pozwolili śledczym tropić lotów CIA |language=pl |work=Rzeczpospolita |date=17 April 2009 |access-date=17 July 2010 |first=Mariusz |last=Kowalewski |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723193053/https://www.rp.pl/artykul/292283-Politycy-nie-pozwolili-sledczym-tropic-lotow-CIA.html}}</ref>]]
In January 2005, Swiss senator [[Dick Marty]], representative at the [[Council of Europe]] in charge of the European investigations, concluded that 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA in Europe—thus qualifying as ghost detainees—and then rendered to a country where they may have been tortured. Marty qualified the sequestration of [[Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr]] (aka "Abu Omar") in [[Milan]] in February 2003 as a "perfect example of extraordinary rendition."<ref name="Bbc060124">{{cite news | title=Europe 'knew about' CIA flights |publisher=BBC News | date=24 January 2006 | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4641810.stm | access-date=7 September 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Europe in Uproar over CIA Operations |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-flights26nov26,0,1837707.story?coll=la-home-headlines |access-date=18 December 2005 |work=Los Angeles Times |first=Tracy |last=Wilkinson |date=26 November 2005 }}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=CIA Flights in Europe: The Hunt for Hercules N8183J | url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,387185,00.html|access-date=18 December 2005 |work=Der Spiegel }}</ref> ([[#Council of Europe investigation and its two reports|See below: Council of Europe investigation and its two reports]])

''[[The Guardian]]'' reported on 5 December 2005, that the [[government of the United Kingdom]] is "guilty of breaking [[international law]] if it knowingly allowed secret CIA "rendition" flights of terror suspects to land at UK airports, according to a report by American legal scholars."<ref name="Guardian051205b">{{cite news | title=Special Reports: UK 'breaking law' over CIA secret flights | url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1657737,00.html | access-date=18 December 2005 |work=The Guardian|location=London | date=5 December 2005  | first=Ian | last=Cobain}}</ref><ref name="DemocracyNow051205">{{cite web | title=British Tory MP Blasts Extraordinary Rendition, Says Britain Broke International Law and "Complicit in Torture" if Flights Passed Through UK | url=http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/1455243 | access-date=18 December 2005 | date=5 December 2005 | publisher=[[Democracy Now]] | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216154348/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05%2F12%2F05%2F1455243 | archive-date=16 December 2005 }}</ref>

According to ''[[Raw Story]]'', the Polish site identified by reporter [[Larisa Alexandrovna]] and Polish intelligence officer [[David Dastych]] is [[Stare Kiejkuty (base)|Stare Kiejkuty]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Soviet-era compound in northern Poland was site of secret CIA interrogation, detentions | url=http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html | access-date=11 July 2007 | archive-date=9 November 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109035206/https://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> In response to these allegations, former Polish intelligence chief, [[Zbigniew Siemiatkowski]], embarked on a media blitz and claimed that the allegations made by Alexandrovna and Dastych were "...{{nbsp}}part of the domestic political battle in the US over who is to succeed current Republican President George W Bush," according to the German news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur."<ref>{{cite web | title=Former Polish intelligence chief who says report on CIA detention site part of US domestic battle admitted CIA had access to facility | url=http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_Polish_intelligence_chief_who_says_0308.html | access-date=11 July 2007 | archive-date=6 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806084008/https://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_Polish_intelligence_chief_who_says_0308.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>