Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War

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By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 27, 2004; Page A01


The airplane is a Gulfstream V turbojet, the sort favored by CEOs and celebrities. But since 2001 it has been seen at military airports from Pakistan to Indonesia to Jordan, sometimes being boarded by hooded and handcuffed passengers.

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Since Sept. 11, 2001, secret renditions have become a principal weapon in the CIA's arsenal against suspected al Qaeda terrorists, according to congressional testimony by CIA officials. But as the practice has grown, the agency has had significantly more difficulty keeping it secret.

According to airport officials, public documents and hobbyist plane spotters, the Gulfstream V, with tail number N379P, has been used to whisk detainees into or out of Jakarta, Indonesia; Pakistan; Egypt; and Sweden, usually at night, and has landed at well-known U.S. government refueling stops.

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Wearing red overalls and bound with handcuffs and leg irons, the men, who had applied for political asylum in Sweden, were flown to Cairo, according to Swedish officials and documents. Ahmed Agiza was convicted by Egypt's Supreme Military Court of terrorism-related charges; Muhammad Zery was set free. Both say they were tortured while in Egyptian custody. Sweden has opened an investigation into the decision to allow them to be rendered.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27826-2004Dec26?language=printer

Clandestine ferrying of prisoners without regard for international law? Business as usual in the new Amerika.

To my dismay, the article credits some freeper with uncovering the registered owner of the jet.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Prentice-Hall.

The book publishers. More media infiltration.

FweepLand might have a few problems, however.

[Kire]

2. I love their album.

so many great songs, almost Beatles-esque

http://www.jettheband.com/