Mallorca, Spain
Spain is investigating reports that the CIA used a Spanish airport on the island of Mallorca as a stopover while transporting detainees to secret prisons, Madrid’s El Pais reported this week. “If it were confirmed that this is true, we would be looking at very serious, intolerable deeds,” said Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso. He added that by secretly interrogating terror suspects, the U.S. was breaking “the basic rules of treating people in a democratic legal and political system.” A local Mallorca newspaper first broke the story two weeks ago. It reported that a CIA flight that left Mallorca in January 2004 was involved in the kidnapping of Khaled al-Masri, a Lebanese-born German citizen. Al-Masri claims he was abducted in Macedonia and taken to Afghanistan, where he was beaten while being interrogated about his alleged ties to al Qaida.
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