In Europe, Spain has acknowledged its territory may have been used as a stopover for the CIA’s transfer of prisoners known as extraordinary rendition. In testimony before the European parliament, Spanish Foreign Minister Angel Moratinos said dozens of CIA flights have landed on Spanish soil but insisted none contained prisoners.

• Spanish Foreign Minister Angel Moratinos: ” Its important to bear in mind that after their stop over in Spanish territories such flights may have been used in connection with illegal transfer or abduction of prisoners and these flights are being investigated by Spanish authorities because even if there is no evidence that any crimes were committed on Spanish territory some crime subject to universal jurisdiction may have occurred elsewhere.”

Moratinos is the first Foreign Minister to testify in front of an ongoing European probe into the secret CIA program.