In the cases of four men, Abu Omar, Khaled al Maqtari, Khaled el Masri and Binyam Mohamed CIA agents used Shannon Airport as a launching pad for rendition operations.
A number of European countries are failing to protect people from torture. They are sending, or trying to send, people to countries where they are at risk of being tortured, depending on unreliable, unenforceable diplomatic assurances that these people will not be harmed.