since, CNN is saying that there were about 400 kidnapping flights over the EU, probably with torture victims. since the number comes from CNN it looks like the US wants to pile dirt on the european govts in order to discredit any attempts at countering the kidnappings, or even asking too embarassing questions in public.
i think that, in light of this, it would be more appropriate (and easy) to find out who has been kidnapped in european countries than to ask the governments - plural because it is not only the germans - questions which they will never answer truthfully. because, if there were 400 flights, many of them 737's, and we put a conservative average of 50 people per flight, we still have 20.000 people to account for. and according to an american general, they hold around 83.000 people in the gulag.
Meanwhile, FDP's Guido Westerwelle does not rule out that his party might call for such a parliamentary investigation comittee (Untersuchungsausschuss) if former and current government officials are unable or unwilling to reveal the facts. This is one of the rare occasions that I agree with Westerwelle.
