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Nbadan
09-29-2007, 01:01 AM
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N35NK, a plane used for CIA extraordinary rendition, which used to owned by Hilliard who was also one of the owners of Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida. This picture was taken in Santa Maria, Portugal on Feb 17, 2005 during one of the illegal extraordinary rendition flights (1). (Please wave to the poor kidnap victim in the plane)



MEXICO CITY — U.S. authorities are assisting the Mexican government in the investigation of an American business jet that crashed in Cancun this week with four tons of cocaine on board, officials said Thursday.

Some news reports have linked the plane to the transport of terrorist suspects to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but those reports cite logs that indicate only that the plane flew twice between Washington, D.C., and Guantanamo and once between Oxford, Conn. (Bush's home town), and Guantanamo. No terrorist suspects are known to have been transferred to Guantanamo directly from the United States.

The jet, carrying the tail number N987SA, changed hands twice in recent weeks. But how it ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers remains a mystery.

The Mexican attorney general's office said the blue and white Gulfstream II crashed on Monday in a remote jungle area on the Yucatan Peninsula. Authorities seized 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons. Two men were arrested and jailed on drug trafficking charges in Merida, officials said. They declined to identify the men, however.

McClatchy is withholding the names of the alleged new owners of the plane because they couldn't be reached for confirmation.

Link (http://www.mccatchydc.com/world/story/20060.html)


Hilliard, owned Huffman Aviation where Muhammed Atta trained for 9/11, had a history of drug running with N351WB which got busted at the Orlando Executive Airport with over 43 lbs of heroin (2), however both pilots and Hilliard were not charged because of "lack of evidence" despite the discovery of 43 pounds of heroin on his plane.

N35NK was used for flight to and from Rum Cay which mysteriously suddenly fell victim to large scale cocaine import even though that island never had those problems before Hilliard started flying to their island. N35NK also regularly flew to Guatanamo Bay (3)

In 2006 the plane was being sold on to Aircraft Guaranty Corporation for the infamous CIA rendition flights. Despite operating for the CIA now, the plane still regularly flew to known drugs transfer points like Venice, Florida, Bahamas Treasure Cay, Bahamas San Salvador, Bahamas Marsh Harbour, Netherlands Antilles St. Maarten, Toluca, Mexico (see: N900SA) (4)

Sources:
1. http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510512006
2. http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/jeb-bush-linked-to-...
3. http://www.williambowles.info/911/flight_schools.html
4. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

Nbadan
09-29-2007, 01:24 AM
Florida connections already appearing...

By Jay Root and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
September 27, 2007


MEXICO CITY — U.S. authorities are assisting the Mexican government in the investigation of an American business jet that crashed in Cancun this week with four tons of cocaine on board, officials said Thursday.
One of the men listed as the registered owners of the plane, Joao Luiz Malago, said in a telephone interview from Brazil that his Florida-based company sold the aircraft for $2 million on Sept. 16 to a Lakeland, Fla., man and his partner, who Malago believed was from Miami.

Malago said he feared the man was dead because he hasn't been picking up the phone. Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico had no information on any American citizens being killed or arrested in connection with the aircraft, a 1975 model Gulfstream II.

"We're in the process of a judicial investigation that the Mexican government is conducting and we are providing information,'' said an embassy official, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record. "Part of that investigation is to find out more about where this plane came from and who had it before.''

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The jet, carrying the tail number N987SA, changed hands twice in recent weeks. But how it ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers remains a mystery.

The Mexican attorney general's office said the blue and white Gulfstream II crashed on Monday in a remote jungle area on the Yucatan Peninsula. Authorities seized 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons. Two men were arrested and jailed on drug trafficking charges in Merida, officials said. They declined to identify the men, however.

The aircraft was sold on Aug. 30 to Donna Blue Aircraft, owned by two Brazilians: Malago and his partner Eduardo Dias Guimaraes. In separate telephone interviews from different parts of Brazil, both men said they'd sold the aircraft to two Florida men on Sept. 16.

"We are not the owners of the plane," said Guimaraes, reached in Goiania in central Brazil.

He deferred most questions to his partner, Malago, who said from Sao Paulo that Donna Blue purchased the aircraft in July from a company that had owned it for 10 years, and then flipped it quickly to two Florida businessmen who paid for it in full.

McClatchy is withholding the names of the alleged new owners of the plane because they couldn't be reached for confirmation.

The Gulfstream was awaiting documentation when it departed on Sept. 18 at 5:10 pm from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport to Toluca, outside Mexico City, Malago said. He said he learned of Monday's crash after receiving a call from an insurance company, but had been unable to reach the new owner by phone and feared he was dead.

He said he knew nothing of the plane's history or what use it had been put to previously. He said he'd been a pilot for 25 years and had bought and sold planes throughout Latin America. "Generally you don't know the history of the plane," he said.

At the time of the Guantanamo flights, the plane's operation was managed by Air Rutter International, a California-based air charter service, but was owned by someone else. Air Rutter's owner, Bill Cripe, refused to identify that owner, except to say he was a reputable businessman. Cripe also said he didn't know about any flights to Guantanamo.

Link (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/20060.html)

Wild Cobra
09-29-2007, 04:57 AM
Well, I guess the Air America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_Radio) radio network has to pay the bills somehow. I guess now that they lost their capitol, they will go bankrupt again...

Gerryatrics
09-29-2007, 05:22 AM
The real question is, did they kill the pilots a month in advance of when this happened to cover up the crash?

Yonivore
09-29-2007, 07:01 AM
You know, if Nbadan were as easy to convince of Iraqi WMDs, Shi'ite and Sunni cooperation against their common enemies, and Iranian complicity in the murder of American soldiers -- for all of which there is mountains more evidence than in any of the stupid black helicopter crap he posts on here...he'd be a fucking neo-con.

ChumpDumper
09-29-2007, 01:08 PM
They're still translating the documents!

Nbadan
09-30-2007, 12:32 AM
Amazingly, this is not the first time that Gitmo has been linked to large-scale drug-trafficking, as this article from 1998 shows...

CALI CARTEL ASSOCIATES BUSTED IN CHILE
Police Bring Down Country's Largest Drug Operation Ever
May 5, 1998


Chilean Police arrested at dawn Monday 11 people suspected of drug trafficking and money laundering in connection with the notorious Cali Cartel of Colombia. Officials believe the drug ring to be far bigger than that allegedly run by Mario Silva Leiva, a.k.a. Cabro Carrera, considered Chile's leading cocaine kingpin.

The arrests, which took place in the capital of Santiago and the port city of Valparaiso, were part of a joint operation by Carabineros Police and the State Defense Council (CDE), which had been monitoring the operation for over a year. The suspects allegedly have provided shipping services to the Cali Cartel.

The alleged leader of the narcotics ring is Vina del Mar businessman Manuel Vicente Losada, who was arrested in Santiago. Another key suspect arrested yesterday is Gabriel Toro Toro, a Colombian whom authorities have identified as an important nexus of the Cali Cartel.

These and the other suspects arrested have been linked to a shipment of five tons of cocaine which U.S. drug enforcement officials in Miami intercepted over six years ago on the vessel Harbour, as it headed toward Guantanamo Bay. The drugs, valued at US$60 million, had come from the Cali Cartel and were to be sold in the U.S. The vessel, which originally came from Peru in 1991 under the name "Golden Hill," had a Chilean captain, Yerko Huerta, and a crew of 27 Chileans and one Colombian at the time it was seized. U.S. courts sentenced Huerta to life in prison, and sentenced 19 of the crew members to prison terms of between 10 and 19 years.

Link (http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/news/chip/h98/chip.19980505.html)

There's also something in Central Asia that's a lot more profitable than oil. This region has the main transit routes for Afghan heroin being smuggled to Western countries. When one recalls that American military cargo planes were returning from Central America in the 1980s loaded with cocaine for distribution in the U.S. by the CIA and the Mafia one has to wonder what might be in American military cargo planes currently flying out of recently-established U.S. bases and airports in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Link (http://www.serendipity.li/wtc9.htm)

Uzbekistan is widely conceded to be a major rendition location for prisoners picked up in Afghanistan. Why not add in a little of the local agricultural exports as well?