Pilot:
"We are now approaching Paris, France. Open the tailgate, gentlemen."
Posted on 11/07/2002 9:47:13 AM PST by Robe
In the first pic you can see one silhouetted in the door of the stewardess cabin coming out with the behind Johhny Walker.
A relative of mine is one of them. I can tell you that it makes him nervous, as this is no Boy Scout troop he's flying around.
I am glad though to see that the Justice Department is not using their Gulfstream's, Falcon 50's, Hawker 125's, and other exec-jets to transport Islamic prisoners. They tend to piss on the floors. Our Justice Department has an obscene fleet of lavish heavy metal. Why can't they all be replaced with C130's?
Pray for GW and our Troops
LOL!
Pray for GW and our Troops
Will do.
I don't.
They're obviously being coddled too much.
I sure hope he's being careful for his own protection because these clowns would slit his throat if given the chance.
Notice the serviceman hiding his face in Pik #1: With sleeper cells here in the USA we don't need reprisals against our brave boys doing the "dirty work" of "caring" for these scumbags.
I'm a little surprised these piks were even released.
Didn't you see Conair [:<)
Four photographs of prisoners _ handcuffed, heads covered with black hoods and bound on the floor of a cargo plane with nylon straps _ appeared overnight on the Web site of radio talk show host Art Bell. ``Anonymous mailer sends us photos taken inside a military C-130 transporting POWs,'' the headline said.
The new photos are the first giving a glimpse into security measures aboard any of the airplanes used this year as prisoners were transferred from Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world to the Guantanamo Bay naval facility. It has long been known that prisoners were heavily restrained, and photos of prisoners bound and kneeling after arrival at the prison early this year created a stir among human and prison rights groups. Officials said the photos on the plane were not authorized for release. It wasn't clear whether they were official photos taken by the military for documentation, or pictures taken for personal use by an individual soldier.
The Defense Department has limited the news media in the kind of photos it can take of prisoners from the war in Afghanistan, arguing that photos subjecting the prisoners to humiliation violate the Geneva Convention. But officials discovered that troops posed for photos with American Taliban captive, John Walker Lindh, as he was handcuffed and wearing a blindfold with an obscenity scrawled across it.
AP-ES-11-08-02 1057EST
By coincidence, I just happened to be listening to the Art Bell program when he announced that Drudge had put up a link to the photos on Art's web site. Guess the Pentagon missed the posting on StrangeCosmos.
Notice the difference in the Piks.
Once again...............with al Qaeda "sleepers" in the US I wonder how "safe" it is to have our military men's pictures put on the Web? Check out the guy on the RIGHT in the FIRST PIK, hiding his face. THIS may be a wise action.
!!!!!!!!!!LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!!!!!!!!!
Two reasons, one we've got better uses for our C-130s, and they are more expensive to operate, two, the DOJ also has a buch of old 727s, I've seen those in various airports. Nowhere they need to go that a 727 won't serve as well, and more cheaply. Although it would be nice if they'd strip out the seats and use the DoD system for prisoner transport.
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