March 24, 2008 -- CIA rendition flights in full operation after Bush veto of
torture bill
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080323_1
publication date: Mar 23, 2008
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March 24, 2008 -- CIA rendition flights in full
operation after Bush veto of torture bill
The Irish media is reporting on continuing CIA rendition
flights through Shannon Airport in Ireland following other recent CIA
flights being spotted in Norway, Hungary, and Iceland. On March 12, a
Gulfstream IV jet, tail number N475LC and on March 15 another
Gulfstream IV, tail number N478GS, landed at Shannon. Both planes,
operated by Centurion Aviation Services, a CIA front company based in
Fayetteville, North Carolina, were identified in a European Union
report as planes involved in the CIA's renditioning of prisoners.
N478GS was previously registered to Braxton Management Services of
Great Falls Montana, another purported CIA front.
The spate of CIA rendition aircraft activity comes after President
Bush's recent veto of a bill that would have banned the CIA and US
military torture tactic known as waterboarding.
On December 4, 2004, N478GS almost crashed on landing at Bucharest
Baneasa Airport in Romania. It was arriving from Bagram gulag in
Afghanistan with seven unidentified passengers. The Council of Europe
identified two previous possible rendition flights by the Gulfstream --
in 2003 it made flights from Tel Aviv to Bucharest and Stuttgart to
Tbilisi, Georgia. It was also a frequent visitor to Fayetteville;
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
N475LC has also been active. On August 10, 2007, it was sighted at
Glasgow airport. It has flown from Fayetteville to Shannon via Bangor,
Maine and returned from Glasgow to Fayetteville via Bangor.
CIA rendition aircraft N475LC, registered to Centurion Aviation Services.
On March 16, two additional CIA aircraft, N71PG and N54PA,
both Lear jets, were scheduled to land in Shannon.? N54PA is registered
to VPC Planes LLC of Wilmington, Delaware. N71PG is registered to
Phoenix Air Group, Inc. of Cartersville, Georgia. N54PA flew from
Andrews Air Force Base to Godman Army Air Field in Kentucky on March
21. On March 20, N71PG flew from Bangor to Cartersville, Georgia.
N54PA was sighted in February 2008 in Seoul. It has also landed in
Beijing, London Gatwick, and Maastricht, Netherlands. N71PG has been
seen in Geneva, Amsterdam Schipol, San Juan, and Santa Maria, Azores.
N54PA has been sighted in Keflavik, Gander, Newfoundland; Guam; and Guantanamo.
Comments
liberty antigone
(?)
"What you do to the least of them, you do to me also", Thus
spake Jesus. Funny how Bush interprets the Gospels, eh?
Betty Wood
(Blodgett Mills NY)
You
seem to forget: God spoke directly dubya. (or was it dubya spoke to
God?) Anyway, it seems that Moses got it all wrong. Moses understood
"thou shalt not" but dubya heard "thou shalt", no "not". And he's been
living by the newly interpreted commandments ever since.
Thierry Jacob
(Scarborough)
The Woman Who Nearly Stopped the War
By Martin Bright
The New Statesman
Wednesday 19 March 2008
Five years ago, Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, learned
something so outrageous that she sacrificed her career to tell the
truth. Martin Bright on a brave deed that should not be forgotten
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408H.shtml
