Flight logs to be posted on this site Wednesday 29th November

JOURNEYS OF ALLEGED CIA PLANES POSTED ON THIS SITE

More than 3000 flight logs of suspected CIA operated planes are published here now.

The flightlogs trace the involvement in the War on Terror of these key planes. Among the most important were those operated by Aero Contractors Ltd, based at Johnston County, North Carolina – two operated by them a Gulfstream V (registered N379P and then N8068V) and a Boeing Business Jet (N313P and then N4476S) played the biggest role in rendition operations.

The flightlogs detail CIA activities ranging from the rendition of terrorist suspects, to the deployment of covert teams into Afghanistan, the transfer of interrogators to assist in the questioning of prisoners like Saddam Hussein and Abu Zubaydah, the transfer of Libyan secret policemen to Guantanamo, visits to the CIA’s training facility at Camp Peary, to the deployment of teams following major incidents, such as the Bali bomb or a bomb blast at the US consulate in Karachi.

The presence of these planes at key events around the world, and at key CIA bases, since 9/11 helps confirm their identity as the CIA’s secret airfleet.

More importantly, though most of these flights are un-related to renditions, it is the flight plans of certain jets exactly matching the accounts given by former or current prisoners that help prove these renditions took place just as the prisoners described – and the key role of the US Government in these transfers.

At a time when the US Government (citing the need for ‘state secrecy’) still refuses to acknowledge its responsibility for any single rendition operation (for example, refusing to acknowledge responsibility for the arrest and transfer of German citizen Khaled el Masri to a CIA jail in Afghanistan where he was held without charge for five months in 2004), these flight logs are published to provide detailed authentication for the description of a systematic CIA rendition program described in ‘Ghost Plane’.

After detailing and corroborating more than 80 renditions, often with the help of these flight logs (the list is published as annex in Ghost Plane), I hope this publication will also help others to trace other cases and, most importantly, help trace the fate of many, many prisoners that have vanished since their arrest since 9/11. Only through public exposure, can their fate be established – and their fair treatment be verified.

The logs detail flights to: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Anguilla, Antigua, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas UK, Bahrein, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde Is, Cayman Islands, Columbia, Croatia, Cuba, Dutch Antilles, Cyprus, Czech R, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eire, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Guinea, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kitts and Nevis, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, N/A, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Portugal (Azores), Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos UK, UAE, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan, Wake Island (USA), Yemen.

NEW INFORMATION:

• The flightlogs indicate a CIA trip to Iran, and the first confirmed trip of a CIA flight into Diego Garcia.
• CIA planes hold ‘meetings’ at key locations such as Amman, Cyprus, Frankfurt and Desert Rock, Nevada, prior to key rendition operations.
• Involvement of CIA fleet in deployment of Jawbreaker team to Afghanistan
• Involvement of CIA fleet with Britain’s MI6 in negotiation with Libyan intelligence in Libya
• Rendition of three Syrians from Pakistan to Syria by US agents, matching flight logs of CIA jet.
• Rendition of an Italian citizen, Abu al-Kassem Britel, from Pakistan to Morrocco in US jet.
• Rendition of Yemeni Abduh al Shaqarwi (aka Riyadh the Facilitator) from Pakistan to Jordan, and then Jordan to Afghanistan.
• Confirmation of rendition claim by Mauritanian and former German resident, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, first to Jordan and then to Afghanistan
• Confirmation of rendition claim by Yemeni businessman, Abdulsalam al-Hela, from Egypt to Afghanistan.
• Confirmation of rendition claim by two British residents (Jamil al Banna and Bisher al Rawi) from the Gambia to CIA jail in Afghanistan.
• Confirmation of rendition claim by Pakistani, Saifullah Paracha, from Thailand to Kabul.
• Confirmation of rendition claim by Yemeni, Mohamed Al Assad, from Djibouti to Kabul.
• Confirmation of rendition claim by Yemenis, Mohamd Bashmilah and Salah Nasser Salim ‘Ali, from Jordan to Kabul.

The flight logs, originating primarily from aviation sources in the US and Europe, are incomplete for journeys into the Far East, but do support report that some key detainees were held in such Far East locations such as Thailand.

Many of the logs may be tied to so-far unreported renditions; there are many flights from airports like Kabul, Afghanistan, to destinations across the Middle East, sometimes when the jets involved were known to carry rendition teams.

Only certain logs are being published here – these logs relate only to those planes previously publicly identified as operating for the CIA, and do not include, for example, the logs of many privately-owned jets also apparently chartered by the US government. Some of these private jets have also been used in rendition.operations.

VIEW THE FLIGHT LOGS

VIEW A TIMELINE OF EVENTS IN THE WAR ON TERRROR - AS TOLD BY THE FLIGHT LOGS

EXAMPLES OF RENDITION CLAIMS

Slahi’s account of rendition, at Guantanamo:

http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_8_20751-21016.pdf page 195 onwards…