Amnesty: CIA Prisoner Plane Landed in Finland
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Amnesty says that a Gulfstream IV jet, which is known to have visited Finland in 2001, was used to transport terrorism suspect Abu Omar from Germany to Egypt.
Finland's Civil Aviation Administration confirms that the plane landed at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in June 2001.
Amnesty says that the same plane flew to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba over 100 times between 2001 and 2005. The Untied States maintains a prison camp at the base for people it suspects of terrorism.
"It could be that the flight to Finland was a completely normal flight. However, Amnesty has reason to suspect that the CIA has used the same plan for several prisoner transfers," said Frank Johansson, executive director of the Finnish section of Amnesty.
The United States has also been accused of capturing people it claims are terrorists, and sending them to other countries to be tortured.
Finnish News Agency, Amnesty International