Dick Marty Quotations

There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

Legal proceedings in progress in certain countries seemed to indicate that individuals had been abducted and transferred to other countries without respect for any legal standards.

I find it hard to believe these actions could have taken place without a degree of collaboration or passivity by governments or services operating under them. I am thinking of the secret services.

If a country resorts to the tactics of gangsters I say no. There are different elements that allow me to say that governments were aware of what was happening.

Hundreds of CIA-chartered flights have passed through numerous European countries.

It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware.

The proof is completely clear and the CIA has never denied it.

We cannot limit ourselves solely to the 'secret prisons' issue.

It takes time to find justice, but I am optimistic.

These two facts are significant because they indicate methodology, logistics and personnel for this kind of operation ? operations which are totally contrary to the spirit and the text of the European convention on human rights.

So far, all we have is a suspicion. There have been certain reports and they must be investigated.

In the Abu Omar case is a crystal clear case of extraordinary rendition. Italian investigators built a net around him, and the Americans destroyed it all.

But it is possible that there were detainees that stayed 10, 15 or 30 days. We do not have the full picture.

All the indications are that this 'extraordinary rendition' was already known about.