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 Saturday October 28, 2006 16:03 by R. Isible
 Guardian UK fails to credit plane spotters, inymedia & swedish TV Article in the Guardian appearing to draw largely on the work of a Guardian journalist that has published "Ghost Plane" (which claims that it was his articles which first revealed rendition flights 1 year ago) talks about Germany parliamentary report revealing how the CIA and Syria attempted to stop Germany revealing information about torture flights. The article also fingers Prestwick as an "ask no questions" type of airport but doesn't mention that the reason a lot of this was exposed was because of widely dispersed, self-organised plane-spotters and anti-war activists (like Tim Hourigan and the others in Shannon) who kept logs and kept going even in the face of very extreme attempts be An Garda Siochana and the Airport Police to intimidate them. After a long period of doing this painstaking research (which initially revealed that US troops were transiting in huge numbers on their way to Iraq) it was later discovered (but at the latest in 2004 well before what the Guardian claims) that the CIA were using Shannon for their Gulfstream torture/rendition refuellings. At that stage the Swedish documentary team "Kallefakte" (sp?) got involved. |
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