Aviation obsessives with cameras and Internet connections have become a threat to cover stories established by the CIA to mask its undercover operations and personnel overseas. U.S. intel sources complain that "plane spotters" - hobbyists who photograph airplanes landing or departing local airports and post the pix on the Internet - made it possible for CIA critics recently to assemble details of a clandestine transport system the agency set up to secretly move cargo and people - including terrorist suspects - around the world.
Google searches revealed that plane spotters Web-posted numerous photos of two private aircraft - one a small Gulfstream jet and the other a midsize Boeing 737 - registered to obscure companies suspected of CIA connections.
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~I can't find the photos of the planes referred to above on google. Many images using 'inurl:gulfstream' or 'inurl:boeing' 737 but nothing specific to CIA or prisoners.
(Now these photos would be something to post...)
Witnesses described seeing the prisoners handed to US agents whose faces were masked by hoods. The clothes of the handcuffed prisoners were cut off and they were dressed in nappies covered by orange overalls before being forcibly given sedatives by suppository. --Sunday Times Nov. 14, 2004
Posted by Cieciel at February 28, 2005 12:32 AM