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Spain to investigate cia flights in spain { March 11 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051115-114958-2915r Spain's Madrid attacks in March 11 2004; CIA secret flight Jan 22 2004. http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051115-114958-2915r Spain to probe CIA terror flights MADRID, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Spain is to investigate claims that CIA flights carrying terror suspects made secret stops on Spanish territory. Speaking on the Spanish television channel Telecinco Tuesday, Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said if proven, the allegations could severely harm relations with the United States. The CIA is suspected of having stopped in Majorca during the prisoner transfers. According to Spain's El Pais newspaper, a total of 10 such flights were detailed in a report submitted by Spain's Civil Guard to the prosecutor's office of the Balearics Supreme Court in June. "If it were confirmed as true, we would, of course, be looking at very serious cases," Alonso said. The first suspect flight allegedly landed in Palma, on the island of Majorca, on Jan. 22, 2004. The flights -- by two Boeing 747s and two Gulfstream jets -- continued until Jan. 17, 2005, it is claimed. Destinations included Algeria, Romania, Macedonia and Sweden, according to the Spanish media. But Spanish Defense Minister Jose Bono urged caution over the Majorca allegations, saying, "We do not have any evidence; we do not have any proof." He denied a media report the Spanish secret service had asked the CIA to stop using Palma airport. The Washington Post claimed earlier this month that the CIA used secret prisons in Eastern Europe for the internment and interrogation of terror suspects. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said it had corroborating evidence from CIA flight logs, and named Spain as one of the countries in which CIA planes repeatedly landed. The European Union has said it will investigate. Relations between Washington and Madrid deteriorated sharply after Spanish Prime Minister Jose Rodriguez Zapatero withdrew troops from Iraq following the March 11 bombings in the capital. © Copyright 2005 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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