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Mexico drug plane used for US 'rendition' flights: report
AFP ^ | 05 Sep 2008 | AFP

Posted on 09/08/2008 7:01:55 AM PDT by BGHater

A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament.

The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, when it crash-landed in the Yucatan peninsula on September 24, El Universal reported.

The daily said it had obtained documents from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that that plane flew several times to Guantanamo, Cuba, presumably to transfer terrorism suspects."

It said the European Parliament was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers.

It also said the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) logbook registered that the plane had traveled between US territory and the US military base in Guantanamo.

It said the FAA registered its last owner as Clyde O'Connor in Pompano Beach, Florida.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; cia; drugs; enemycombatant; gitmo; mexico; rendition; wod

1 posted on 09/08/2008 7:02:25 AM PDT by BGHater
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To: BGHater

Why is the drug trade illegal?

The government hates competition.


2 posted on 09/08/2008 7:05:01 AM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth amendments?)
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To: BGHater
Gulfstream III In Flight
3 posted on 09/08/2008 7:09:50 AM PDT by cyberslave (The time has come to talk of many things.)
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To: BGHater

This story doesn’t make any damn sense. It sounds like it was written by an Alex Jones believer.


4 posted on 09/08/2008 7:38:18 AM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: BGHater
Pass the salt, please. I need to take this with a few grains.

Okay, that's better. Now, 1) This is Agence France using a Mexican newspaper as a source, apparently without checking it out themselves, and 2) I certainly hope we are recycling assets like this, which we have gotten from drug traffickers, and are putting them to good use, such as moving terrorists to Guantanamo.

5 posted on 09/08/2008 7:42:12 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: 3AngelaD

“I certainly hope we are recycling assets like this, which we have gotten from drug traffickers, and are putting them to good use, such as moving terrorists to Guantanamo.”

They’re saying it crashed with 3.3 tons of cocaine in it after it was used by the CIA to transport people to Guantanamo, not before.


6 posted on 09/08/2008 10:46:45 AM PDT by TKDietz
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