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[joe90]

One CIA pilot told me Prestwick was a popular destination for refuelling stops and layovers. "It's an 'ask no questions' type of place and you don't need to give them any advance warning you're coming he said.
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Excerpt from,
Stephen Grey 'Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme' (Hardback, 2006, London, Hurst and Co)

It would be very interesting to find out who these people are at Prestwick (and the other Scottish airports) who 'ask no questions' - and to ask them how many times they have helped one of the most vile organisations ever invented, the CIA, in committing international terrorist acts and war crimes?

Or is it only terrorism committed by people of a certain ethnic orgin whom the British New Labour government are only interested in applying their anti-terrorists laws against?

Terrorist-war crime flights in and out of Scotland, helped by employees at Scottish Air Traffic Control - I feel safer already!

ps
A friend of mine just recently returned for holiday to Florida says her hand luggage wasn't searched properly and she boarded the plane with all sorts of bottles of liquid stuff. Sufficed to say my pal doesn't look in the least 'Asiany'.

I got the impression from her that baggage searches were a bit of hit and miss affair altogether - just like the discriminatory application of New Labour anti-terrorist legislation in general.

[joe90]

US judge blocks Guantanamo move
BBC
10 Oct
"The executive [ie George Bush] has now been told it cannot bury its Guantanamo mistakes in third world prisons," Joshua Denbeaux told the Associated Press.

There are about 340 detainees still being held at Guantanamo, according to the Pentagon. It has transferred or released approximately 445 detainees to other countries.

This BBC article contains an interesting copy of a transcript -
Verbatim Transcript of Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing for ISN 10024 (PDF file)
10 March 2007

Sufficed it to say -
- Mr Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, the subject of this 'tribunal', is the victim of American international terrorism, kidnapped and held prisoners against his will

- the tribunal is illegal under international law

- the tribunal is illegal under American law

- there is no such international legal status as 'enemy combatant' which is merely an invented made-up name

- the Yanks and the Brits would be the first ones to complain if their citizens or soldiers were being deprived of their rights under the Geneva Conventions (which is the proper set of rules applicable to war and violent conflicts), except of course if they happened to be Muslim or 'Asiany looking'.

The vile terrorist war criminal thugs of the CIA are being given immunity from prosecution by German prosecutors -
Rendition - CIA impunity again goes unchallenged
AI
25 Sept 2007

Just like the good old days under Hitler, when his violent racist thugs ran amok and German courts let them.

One set of laws for us and one set of laws for them - it's called western democracy and civilisation, don't you know!

ps
Anna Politkovskaya remembered
AI
03 Oct 2007

[joe90]

US lawmakers' apology to Canadian
BB Americas
12 Oct 2007

Obvioulsy the BBC doesn't think it worthwhile to let Scots know about one of the first (the first ?) legal settlement to take place resulting from CIA terrorism, and the probable use of our Scottish airports and its can-do ask-no-questions Air Traffic Controllers.

For all you budding home-grown Scottish CIA-terrorist enthusiasts out there -
Careers Scotland - Air Traffic Controllers

ps
Shadows Whose Fate Can Only Be Guessed At
Lost in the rendition machine
Stephen Gray
ZMag.org
11 Oct 2007

and

MoD to investigate Iraq abuse claims
Ch4 News
19 0ct 2007