Editing Diego Garcia (section)

===Rendition flight refuelling admission===
Several groups claim that the military base on Diego Garcia has been used by the United States government for transport of prisoners involved in the controversial [[extraordinary rendition]] program, an allegation formally reported to the [[Council of Europe]] in June 2007.<ref>{{Cite journal| first=Dick |last=Marty|location= Switzerland, ALDE | title=Secret detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states: second report | version=Section 70; page 13 | publisher=Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights | url=http://www.sacc.org.uk/sacc/docs/coe-rendition-second-marty-report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926201517/http://www.sacc.org.uk/sacc/docs/coe-rendition-second-marty-report.pdf |archive-date=26 September 2007 |url-status=live | date=7 June 2007 | access-date=21 February 2008}}</ref> On 21 February 2008, British Foreign Secretary [[David Miliband]] admitted that two United States extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on Diego Garcia in 2002, and was "very sorry" that earlier denials were having to be corrected.<ref>{{cite news | author=Staff writers | title=UK apology over rendition flights | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7256587.stm | work=BBC News | date=21 February 2008 | access-date=21 February 2008 | archive-date=21 May 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521211747/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7256587.stm | url-status=live }}</ref>