Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Andrew Tyrie, who chairs the parliament’s all-party group on extraordinary rendition, called for the US and UK governments to come clean over the holding of detainees.
A US Navy spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, said: “There are no detention facilities on US navy ships.”
However, he added that it was a matter of public record that some individuals had been put on ships “for a few days” during what he called the initial days of detention. He declined to comment on reports that US naval vessels stationed in or near Diego Garcia had been used as “prison ships.”
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