"TORONTO (AP) - CIA planes have landed in Canada 74 times since the 9/11 terror attacks, underscoring fears that the United States is ferrying suspected terrorists through its neighboring country en route to foreign prisons for torture, according to newly declassified government documents.
The government memos were released this week under Canada's Access to Information Act. The Associated Press obtained them Thursday from The Canadian Press."
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"One memo dated Nov. 28 instructed officials to tell the media that there was ``no credible information to suggest that these planes were used to ferry suspected terrorists to and from Canada, or that illegal activity took place.''
A spokesman for the CIA in Washington declined comment on Thursday."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5643054,00.htmlI don't get this really, if they were doing something as dodgy as extraordinary rendition to eastern Europe or the Middle East, why risk this extra stop here? Is it that much of a shortcut to go over the North Pole instead of the Atlantic to risk this?