Posted on 02/20/2005 7:33:41 AM PST by Brian Mosely
# NEW YORK, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Newsweek has obtained previously unpublished flight plans indicating the CIA has been operating a Boeing 737 as part of a top-secret global charter servicing clandestine interrogation facilities used in the war on terror. And the Boeing's flight information, detailed to the day, seem to confirm the claims of Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, who says he was abducted by American operatives and in early 2004 flown to Afghanistan. Together with previously disclosed flight plans of a smaller Gulfstream V jet, the Boeing 737's travels are further evidence that a global "ghost" prison system, where terror suspects are secretly interrogated, is being operated by the CIA, report Senior Editor Michael Hirsh, Investigative Correspondent Mark Hosenball and National Security Correspondent John Barry in the February 28 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, February 21).
Masri says he was taken off a bus in Macedonia while on holiday on Dec. 31, 2003, then whisked in handcuffs to a motel outside the capital city of Skopje. Three weeks later, on the evening of Jan. 23, 2004, he was brought blindfolded aboard a jet with engines noisily revving, according to his lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic. Masri says he climbed high stairs "like onto a regular passenger airplane" and was chained to clamps on the bare metal floor and wall of the jet. He says he was then flown to Afghanistan, where at a U.S. prison facility he was shackled, repeatedly punched and questioned about extremists at his mosque in Ulm, Germany. Finally released months later, the still-mystified Masri was deposited on a deserted road leading into Macedonia.
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well, ok as long as they are not using air bus
So? Is Newsweek upset it isn't an Airbus?
And the point is????
You beat me to it! :-)
Great minds!
Wow... and their point is??
"Masri says he was taken off a bus in Macedonia while on holiday on Dec. 31, 2003"
ha ha, vacation to Macedonia for what? Further incitement of ethnic tensions
Just as long as it is not an airbus..
Well,my guess is that it is no longer a top-secret global charter servicing.
Whoops! I really should read the posts before I post! everyone posted the same thing!
I'm liking the fact that our guys seem to be doing some serious volume work.
The whole gist of this passage is ludicrous. What, did they expect these terrorists were being hauled by donkey cart?
The press has gone from irresponsible to stupid.
Beats getting a middle seat on Southwest.
Sounds like he made the whole thing up, I hope we are doing this for real though, why take someone on a few weeks vaca to Afghanistan when you can question them in a room somewhere in Macedonia where you grabbed them? The press are pure scum for attempting to reveal any secret operation against terrorists. Why would we commit such an extreme act and then let the guy go to tell the story? Sounds like BS to me.
Isn't Tom "Puff" Daschel's wife a lobbyist for Boesing?
Now they will be forced to switch to an aging L1011 or a fleet of Cesnas?
OH MY GOD, THE CIA IS USING A 737 TO TRANSPORT CAPTURED TERRORISTS!!! OH, THE HUMANITY!!
"CIA has been operating ...a top-secret global charter service".
Air America is not news.
Anything the liberal "mainstream" media can do to undermine America, the War on Terror, and the Bush Administration.
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