Britain and other European
governments have helped the US commit "countless" crimes by colluding with
torture and illegal rendition operations in America's war on terror, Europe's
human rights watchdog has said.
Thomas
Hammarberg, the Council of Europe's rights commissioner, accused governments of
being "deeply complicit" in illegal activities carried out by the US over the
last 10 years, since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and
Washington.
"In attempting
to combat crimes attributed to terrorists, countless further crimes have been
committed in the course of the US-led 'global war on terror'," he said. "Many
of those crimes have been carefully and deliberately covered up."
A 2007 Council
of Europe (COE) report by Dick Marty, Swiss MP, accused Britain and 13 other
European governments of allowing the CIA to run secret detention centres, of
turning a blind eye to torture and the illegal abductions of terror suspects.
Mr Hammerberg
accused Europe's governments of blocking investigations into rendition in line
with Washington's wishes.
"The message
is clear – good relations between the security agencies are deemed more
important than preventing torture and other serious human rights violations,"
he said.
The COE has
highlighted the case of Khaled El-Masri, a German car salesman, who was
abducted twice, first to Afghanistan and then to Albania, where he was dumped
on a remote hillside in an apparent effort to cover up what officials later
conceded was an error.
"So far Europe
has granted effective impunity to those who committed crimes in implementing
the rendition policy. An urgent rethink is required to prevent this misjudged
and failed counter terrorism approach from having a sad legacy of injustice,"
said Mr Hammerberg.
An American legal
dispute between two aviation companies has unveiled the hidden network of US
companies that played a key role in the covert airlifts to abduct, and
transport terrorism suspects.
The court
files of more than 1,700 pages shed new light on the US government's reliance
on private contractors for flights between Washington, foreign capitals, the US
military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and, at times, landing points near
once-secret, CIA-run overseas prisons.
The companies
included DynCorp, a leading government contractor that secretly oversaw a fleet
of luxury jets, and caterers that unwittingly stocked the planes with fruit
platters and bottles of wine for US security personnel, according to the court
files and testimony.
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