Posted on 10/31/2009 5:04:44 PM PDT by Saije
A U.S. plane that featured in a European Parliament report into the 'extraordinary rendition' of terror suspects was met by two SAS helicopters in a secret operation at one of Britain's biggest airports.
The Gulfstream jet landed at Birmingham International Airport on Friday, October 2, having flown in from an undisclosed location, and was seen by a member of staff being met minutes later by the Special Forces regiment aircraft.
Records show that the jet is owned by a subsidiary of L-3 Communications, a multi-billion-dollar defence corporation based in New York, whose clients include several American government departments, among them the Department of Homeland Security.
The jet was cited in a 2007 European Parliament report into CIA rendition - the process of smuggling terrorist suspects to interrogation centres abroad.
While not claiming that the plane had been used in a rendition, it stated that the plane was involved in an accident at Bucharest airport, having arrived from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, and that a passenger on board was found carrying a pistol with ammunition.
The Birmingham airport employee who saw it land said helicopters that he recognised as belonging to the SAS's support flight, 8 Flight Army Air Corps, based at Credenhill, near Hereford, arrived shortly afterwards.
The witness, who did not want to be named, added that he saw another plane, a Boeing 757 operated by COMCO, land at the airport on October 1, and that this was also met by two SAS helicopters. He said: 'People were seen transferring between all the aircraft.'
The aircraft's presence at Birmingham airport was also confirmed by Ron Kosys, a member of the Birmingham Aviation Enthusiasts Group, who has posted pictures on the group's website.
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Muslim propaganda? Or James Carville or Van Jones at it again?
Seriously, what's the difference?
This is one way of doing it. Instead of all the secret handshake disappearing ink secret drop third tree on the left you just print it in the newspaper and your handlers can read it over tea. If you get caught nothing happens, you don’t have to do life in the slammer, you don’t even get yelled at by the cops. Nothing.
PICTURES?????????????
Probably TARP money being given to muslims in the UK.
“I once saw Elvis step off an UFO behind a Piggly Wiggly in Pensacola...”
Actually it was behind the Winn-Dixie in Bradenton...
I saw a 3 chinned woman in Ocala at the Walmart carrying the skunk apes’ half-breed child back in ‘98.
LOL...there are a lot of 3-chinned women in Ocala...
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