Spain may have been CIA flight stopover -minister

BRUSSELS, Sep 14 (Reuters) Spain may have been a stopover for secret CIA flights but there is no evidence that violations of international law were committed on its soil, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said today.

He was the first minister to testify before a European Parliament committee investigating allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency ran secret prisons for terrorism suspects in Europe and flew suspects to states where they could be tortured.

''Our territory may have been used not to commit crimes as such but as a stopover on the way to commit crime in other territories,'' Moratinos said, adding that 66 suspect flights had made stops in Spain.

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