Diego Garcia..thats the name of the British owned island with the military instilation used for rendition flights:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia
The
United States Navy operates Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard
Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon.
Mauritius sought to regain sovereignty, sold to the UK in 1965, over the Chagos Archipelago. Between 1968 and 1973, the
Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were resettled by the
British government to Mauritius and
Seychelles to allow the
United States to establish a military base on the island. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, claiming that the forced expulsion was illegal (see
Depopulation of Diego Garcia)
Strategic Air Command began deploying
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and
aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.
In June 2004, the British
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that United States authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there.[SUP]
[57][/SUP] In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired United States Army General
Barry McCaffrey.[SUP]
[58][/SUP] On July 31, 2008, an unnamed former White House official alleged that the United States had imprisoned and interrogated at least one suspect on Diego Garcia during 2002 and possibly 2003.[SUP]
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Manfred Nowak, one of five of the
United Nations Special Rapporteur on
torture, says that credible evidence exists supporting allegations that ships serving as
black sites have used Diego Garcia as a base.[SUP]
[60][/SUP] The human rights group
Reprieve alleges that United States-operated ships moored outside the
territorial waters of Diego Garcia were used to incarcerate and torture detainees.[SUP]
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[h=3]Rendition flight refuelling admission[/h] Diego Garcia is rumoured to have been one of the locations of the
CIA's
black sites.[SUP]
[62][/SUP] Several groups claim that the military base on Diego Garcia has been used by the United States government for transport of prisoners involved in the controversial
extraordinary rendition program, an allegation formally reported to the
Council of Europe in June 2007.[SUP]
[63][/SUP] On February 21, 2008, British Foreign Secretary
David Miliband admitted that two United States extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on Diego Garcia in 2002. No reference was made to whether prisoners were on board the aircraft at the time.[SUP]
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of the "
high-value detainees" suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia.[SUP]
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[h=3]WikiLeaks CableGate disclosures (2010)[/h] According to Wikileaks CableGate documents (reference ID "
09LONDON1156"), in a calculated move planned in 2009, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a "marine reserve" with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands. A summary of the diplomatic cable is as follows:[SUP]
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HMG would like to establish a "marine park" or "reserve" providing comprehensive environmental protection to the reefs and waters of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official informed Polcouns on May 12. The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park—the world's largest—would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes. He agreed that the UK and United States should carefully negotiate the details of the marine reserve to assure that United States interests were safeguarded and the strategic value of BIOT was upheld. He said that the BIOT's former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a marine reserve.
Additionally, Diego Garcia was used as a storage section for U.S. cluster bombs as a way of avoiding UK parliamentary oversight.[SUP]
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