[RightWhale]

Good find. It has the ring of accuracy, including improved versions of various reports from other sources such as DEBKA that are normally garbled at best.

[blam]

(from today's Mobile Register)

BUSINESS BRIEFING

Docks Closed-Mouthed About Military Copters

An Undisclosed number of U.S. military helicopters circled downtown Mobile on Thursday and were loaded onto a ship bound for an un-named foreign port, according to Alabama State Docks officials

Dock officials said further information about the shipment was confidential.

(short brief little article)

[bert]

Steve Forbes wrote a piece in December '01 describing much of the above.

The account of the Turkish incursion and capture of an Iraqui air base was mentioned in an article here but I strained to find a report on Fox News or other USA source.

it seems the American press has clammed up.