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The Peace and Neutrality Alliance (Pana) has reiterated a call for mandatory searches on US military flights passing through Shannon.
The renewed call comes after a report on torture of prisoners at rendition sites and the publication of a data base linking Shannon Airport to some of the aircrafts carrying prisoners to and from these sites.
The Rendition Project, compiled by British academic researchers who tracked aircrafts linked to CIA missions, and Reprieve, a human rights legal charity, identified 11 planes landing at Irish airports between 2002 and 2004 that may have been on their way to, or on their way back from, known renditions of detainees …. http://www.irishtimes.com