Lawyer: Secret Plane Originated in Germany

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By JAN SLIVA, Associated Press Writer
16 minutes ago

BRUSSELS, Belgium - A lawyer for six Guantanamo Bay prisoners told a European Parliament committee Wednesday that his clients were taken from Bosnia on a U.S. plane that made stops in Turkey and elsewhere in Europe.

Stephen Oleksey also told the committee that Bosnian authorities cooperated in extraditing the Algerian terror suspects because they feared their country would lose U.S. aid.

"The U.S. charge d'affaires told Bosnia that if these men are not arrested the U.S. would withhold its support to Bosnia," Oleksey told the committee investigating allegations that U.S. intelligence agents interrogated al-Qaida suspects at clandestine prisons in Eastern Europe and transported some on secret flights that passed through Europe.

The six Algerians — including four with Bosnian citizenship — were arrested in October 2001 after U.S. intelligence indicated they were planning attacks on U.S. and British embassies in Sarajevo and a U.S. military base in the northeastern city of Tuzla.

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