Spainish FM admits to CIA kidnap stopover.

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Friday September 15, 2006 10:48 by anon

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"Our territory may have been used not to commit crimes as such but as a stopover on the way to commit crime in other territories," Moratinos said, adding that 66 suspect flights had made stops in Spain.

"According to all information available to the Spanish government at this moment ... there has not been any violation of Spanish law as regards CIA flights since this government came into office (March 2004)," he added.

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However, Spanish authorities were investigating flights which could have been used to detain or fly prisoners before or after the stopovers, he said.

"Our territory may have been used not to commit crimes on it but as a stopover on the way to committing crime in another country," Mr Moratinos told a European Parliamentary committee in Brussels.