Irish Allies of US Stoptorturenow Show: CIA CAN'T KEEP A SECRET

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Friday December 07, 2007 21:44

by Firefox

What good is a secret service (CIA) that can't keep a secret?

Pity the poor CIA. What use is a secret service that can't keep a secret? Agents of other secret services should be aware the the loose lips and poor tradecraft of the Americans put the foreigners at risk of arrest and worse. Here's what we mean:

CIA plane photographed in NC. Spotted at Shannon next day.

Pity the poor CIA. What use is a secret service that can't keep a secret? Agents of other secret services should be aware the the loose lips and poor tradecraft of the Americans put the foreigners at risk of arrest and worse.

Irish allies arrested meeting N478GS on arrival at Shannon:

Planespotters of the North Carolina group NCSTN (http://www.ncstoptorturenow.net) photographed the rendition-linked aircraft N478GS at Fayetteville Regional / Grannis Field, November 28, 2007.

The N478GS arrived at Shannon 1:30 a.m., November 29. Two Irish allies, alerted by NCSTN, went to the airport in the public viewing gallery, having already requested the police to search the plane if it arrived. Instead, police arrived and arrested the antitorture activists as the plane arrived at the terminal building!

The activists were released after about an hour.

As one of the activists stated, "It will become an important test case to challenge why the Irish police have not (been) investigating or searching these CIA planes."

In September 2006, The Chicago Tribune reported that FAA records "show that ... in addition to numerous visits to Europe and the Middle East, [N478GS] made repeated landings at a half-dozen U.S. Air Force and Navy installations, including Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where hundreds of suspected terrorists are incarcerated."

PHOTOS INSIDE THE CIA HANGAR AT KINSTON, NORTH CAROLINA

An even bigger fish is the Guantanamo Bay Express, shown in three other photos. The first of these shows protestors in front of the Aero Contractors, Limited, hangar at the Kinston Global TransPark in North Carolina. In the other two, unnamed persons photographed the flagship of the CIA's torture fleet INSIDE THE HANGAR.

Protestors in front of CIA's Kinston, NC, hangar.

Rear of CIA hangar (Kinston, NC) showing Guantanamo Bay Express.

CIA's Guantanamo Bay Express inside its hangar in North Carolina.

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Thanks Firefox and North Carolina peace allies

by Edward Horgan

Sat Dec 08, 2007 00:33

A few hours after the above photo of N478GS was taken at Fayetteville in the US, I handed a printed copy of the photo to Gardai at Shannon, while I was under arrest for observing the same plane's arrival at Shannon airport at 1.30 am on the morning of 30 Nov 07. I also handed them a copy of the complete 77 page report by the EU Parliament TDIP committee investigating extraordinary rendition torture programme, in which this plane was identified as one of the more notorious CIA rendition planes. The network of peace activists is widening internationally, but we urgently need to deepen this network in Ireland right now. Get involved, dont stand idly by while evil is perpetrated in our name.

Detailed article on N475LC Centurion Aviation Services

by anon

Sun Dec 23, 2007 06:43

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=281222

“It is un-American,” Fager said of the rendition program. “You don’t treat children of God this way. Americans don’t treat people this way.”

Fager said the planes leaving Fayetteville usually fly to Bangor, Maine, then on to Shannon Airport in Ireland and then disappear before coming back the same way.

Fager knows that most of the Centurion flights he and other plane-spotters have documented have not been returning from rendition missions. But he said he believes they have established that the company is connected.

Suspects back in Shannon from North Carolina

Fri Jan 11, 2008 17:24

N478GS from FAYETTEVILLE RGNL GRANNIS FLD to SHANNON ETA Fri Jan 11 18:41:00

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=281598

We believe that Centurion is part of what we call the Torture Industrial complex.”
The Torture Industrial Complex includes a wide range of facilities and activities — it is by no means limited only to kidnap-torture “rendition” flights.

Moreover, Centurion flight logs obtained by NC Stop Torture Now document that many of their flights land at one airport in England or Ireland, then drop from sight for several days, only to reappear at a different airport for a return flight to Fayetteville.

What other secret Centurion missions are hidden in these blacked-out periods?

L-3 IS LLC (GREAT FALLS MT) N478GS has been blocked from flightaware tracking by request of owner?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N478GS

Confirmed

by Conor Cregan

Fri Jan 11, 2008 20:03

This plane arrived at Shannon Airport approx. 18.50 11/1/08.

CIA flights landing at Shannon

by Margaret

Fri Jan 11, 2008 21:45

Although the past logs for this planes aren't available on the aviation websites, they are available to the on the Terminal Air website. Not all suspected CIA rendition planes are included here, but all of those identified by Amnesty in their Below the Radar report and by the EU parliamentary committee set up to investigate rendition flights, are listed here.

198 known flights to Shannon: http://66.93.183.118:8247/tair/airport.jsp?id=2309

Latest movements by all planes: http://66.93.183.118:8247/tair/planes.jsp

You can sign up for email alerts of all or individual plane movements.

(It's easiest and quickest to access the information using the address given above. Otherwise go to the main website http://www.appliedautonomy.com/terminalair/index.html and select the data browser. Their is also a visual display of flights available but this can take quite a while to load.)

Rewarding Torturers

Mon Jan 14, 2008 20:52

CACI Awarded Millions in New Gvt. Contracts Despite Being Accused of Widespread Abuse in Lawsuit Brought By 256 Prisoners Held in Iraqi Jails
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/14/caci_awarded_mill...w_gvt

N478GS the L3 IS LLC plane that stopped at Shannon Airport on the 11th of January belongs to the L-3 /CACI/TITAN groups of companies, with a similar Montana registered address as other L3 shell companies.

L3/CACI/TITAN is a information and intelligence company with many private military contracts.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=L-3_Communic...C_Inc.
Involved in the interrogations in Iraq and Abu Ghrarib. Featured in Iraq for Sale by Robert Greenwald.

CACI involvement in Abu Ghraib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcCbdbpZJtU

Any of these people passing through our airports on these non-empty planes.

Or these guys
http://www.ghostsofabughraib.org/
and of these guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0MPcN08Zc

The last listing is 39912 1/11/08 6:41 PM N478GS GLF4 4 EINN SHANNON. where now?

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