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Wed 07 Jul 2008US assured State that CIA flights never used Shannon
THE GOVERNMENT received assurances from US president George Bush and his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice that no extraordinary rendition took place at Shannon airport, the Attorney General, Paul Gallagher has told a UN expert panel on human rights.
Mr Gallagher said this week in Geneva that the assurances were given "unequivocally at the highest level of the US government . . ."
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