 Europe wants answers, and an ongoing investigation into secret CIA flights provided some on Wednesday. Fully 1,000 clandestine flights criss-crossed the continent a new report says. In response, EU parliamentarians headed are off to Macedonia.The uproar took Europe by storm last autumn. Suddenly, everyone wanted to know just how the CIA was using European airstrips and airspace. The suspicion was that Europe had become an unwitting accomplice to the US practice of "extraordinary rendition" -- ferrying terror suspects to third countries for torture. Now, the first fruits of a comprehensive European Union investigation into the flights have been borne. On Thursday, members of the European Parliament flew to Macedonia to learn more about a German citizen's claim that he was abducted there by the CIA in early 2004 -- one day after EU lawmaker Claudio Fava presented an interim report on the EU investigation. More than 1,000 CIA flights, he said, have criss-crossed Europe since 2001....
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