[Robe]

I like the "Accomadations"

[AlaskaErik]

I've used 5000 lb straps on many things during my career, but never like this!!!

[Hugin]

They darn sure ain't gonna hijack that plane!

Hope they issued that soldier some noseplugs though.

[riri]

Who's the fat boy?

[gcruse]

"This is a non-chanting flight. Chaplain Haamarg'hh
will provide ethnic yodeling in the event of cabin
depressurization."

[b4its2late]

They should've opened the back doors and pushed them out when they were about half way to Cuba..... of course after they were interrogated....

[DoctorMichael]

Informative Piks. Noticed the "edited" faces, etc.

Bump for our serviceman tasked for the duty of transporting these scum.

[swheats]

Rounding 'em up and bringing 'em to justice.

[tracer]

Caption for the top photo: "Boys in the hoods"....

[tje]

Lots of leg room! But where are the stewardesses?

[mgc1122]

Looks like the loadmaster has a mask on. I'd think it would be some powerful stink with those ragheads on that helluva long plane ride.

[freedomson]

Gawd, I can almost smell 'em. Gross.

[Cobra64]

Jeeze, it most stink to high heaven in there.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I hope there are plenty of ham 'n pork sandwiches to go around.

[LurkedLongEnough]

They are heading WEST, so all their prayers won't work! ...thanks for the pics.

[blackdog]

Are you sure that is not a picture of hard core DU members? From what they have been posting, I think it may be them.

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?

[lowbridge]

I like the "Accomadations"

I don't.

They're obviously being coddled too much.

[TankerKC]

Typical Space "A" AMC Travel. I rode from Honduras to to Puerto Rico like this once. ;-)

[MarineDad]

Ragheads transformed into sackheads and then into sonobuoys (I WISH!!!)

[Bars4Bill]

Pilot:
"We are now approaching Paris, France. Open the tailgate, gentlemen."

[NYer]

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Pentagon Friday was investigating the release of photographs of terror suspects in heavy restraints as they were flown to the high-security prison in Cuba.

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.