The United States said Thursday it expressed regret to Britain over inaccurate information about two U.S. planes carrying terrorism suspects that refueled on a British Indian Ocean island.
"There was initially inaccurate information provided to the British government that we generated at the end of last year," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
"We regret that there was an error in providing initially that inaccurate information to a good friend and ally," McCormack said.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday to express regret over the incident, McCormack added.
According to media reports, Britain admitted for the first time on Thursday that the United States had used its territory to transfer terrorism suspects, and the United States now told it the two planes with detainees refueled at a U.S. base on the British Indian Ocean island in 2002.
However, the United States has previously assured Britain that the island would not used for such flights, according to British officials.
Britain has insisted that it is not aware of its territory being used by the United States to transfer terrorism suspects outside normal extradition procedures since U.S. President George W. Bush took office in 2001, media reports said.
Source: Xinhua
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