De eisers van het Nationale Hof van Spanje streven naar zeer belangrijke getuigen met betrekking tot de zogenaamde geheime vluchten van de CIA waarin dozens gevangenen Islamist via Spanje aan de Baai van Guantanamo werden vervoerd.

Het nationale Hof verdenkt dat dozens gevangenen die in Kandahar, Afghanistan door de krachten van de V.S. wordt gevangen aan Guantanamo via Spaanse luchthavens of het gebruiken van Spaans luchtruim tussen Januari 2002 en Oktober 2006 werden vervoerd.

Volgens Spaans dagelijks El Pai's, leidden ongeveer 47 vluchten aan of kwamen uit de basis van de V.S. in Guantanamo in Cuba en landden of vlogen over Spaanse luchthavens.

A document submitted to the court by the Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA) authority, refers to eight flights in 2002, seven in 2003, twelve in 2004, nine in 2005, nine in 2006, and two in February 2007.

The National Court also wants to know why in 2002, just months after the deadly September 11 attacks against the twin towers, ex-premier Jose Maria Aznar and US president George W. Bush, updated a bilateral defence treaty, which had been in place in 1989.

The updated treaty made it more flexible for American planes to land at the US bases of Rota and Moron de la Frontera.

The court wants to know if these ‘more flexible’ terms were used to transfer the first 23 prisoners sent from the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan to Guantanamo.

Flight and airport officials as well as military and civilian air traffic controllers in the US bases located at Moron de la Frontera, Rota and Torrejon de Ardoz will be asked to give their testimony.

The flights took place under the leadership of former prime minister Jose Maria Aznar and the current prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

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