EU urges US to answer EU lawmakers on CIA flights - by Ingrid Melander
VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Union urged the United States on Wednesday to respond to EU lawmakers heading for Washington next week to investigate allegations of secret CIA detention centers and flights in Europe for terror suspects. But neither the EU's top Justice official nor the Justice and Interior minister of EU President Austria asked U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales any questions on the allegations during talks on Wednesday, EU officials said. A Washington Post report last year that the CIA had run secret prisons in Europe and flown suspects to states where they would have been tortured unleashed a spate of investigations.
"I strongly hope members of the (European Parliament's) inquiry committee will be received in Washington by American officials to open a transparent dialogue to find the truth," the EU's Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told a news conference after talks with Gonzales on EU-US security cooperation.
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