By Prensa Latina
Lisbon : The Portuguese Parliament analyzes a proposal Friday to create an investigating commission of accusations on the traffic through Portugal of prisoners moved by the United States to Guantanamo prisons.
The idea of creating that body was presented by parliamentary groups of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Left Bloc as of disclosures made by the “Reprieve” Non-Governmental Organization in Great Britain.
According to those statements, over 728 of 744 people illegally imprisoned by United States in the naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba passed through the Portuguese territory or air space.
“Reprieve” revealed the names of those inmates and the list of the 48 flights that moved them, from which nine landed in the Portuguese airports of Lajes, Santa Maria and Azores islands
The first of them took place on January 11, 2002 from the Moron base in Spain, and the last was on May 7, 2006, in a period concerning three Portuguese governments, included the current one.
For communist deputy Jorge Machado, the creation of the investigating commission will allow the government to clarify “the history of the US Central Intelligence Agency flights that used the national territory.”
However, political groups assert that the PCP and the Left Bloc’s initiative won’t prosper due to the Socialist Party’s rejection.