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2004-12-30 Home Front: WoT

"Ghost Jet" gives US torturers global reach

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Posted by Steve 2004-12-30 1:22:39 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I hear Ted Kennedy borrowed it for when he had to get back to The Compound quick for the holidays. He had to use the hood and the cuffs, but it's not like he hasn't been there before, and a ride's a ride...

Posted by tu3031 2004-12-30 1:59:55 PM|| 2004-12-30 1:59:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 good thing they didn't let him drive

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-30 2:16:31 PM|| 2004-12-30 2:16:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm still waiting to hear about the "ghost Humvee", which is remotely piloted, heavily laden with explosives, and used to transfer high-profile, hard-to-dispose-of prisoners like Saddam Hussein and Tariq Aziz to their ultimate destinations. With cameras rolling, the vehicles are detonated in a wide-open stretch of highway, leaving huge craters with no identifiable remains of their passengers. Too bad, so sad, the "insurgents" sent you to paradise and we're feeling so bad. It's an idea whose time has come.

Posted by Whutch Threth6418 2004-12-30 2:39:31 PM|| 2004-12-30 2:39:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 don't let teddy fly it over water.

Posted by anymouse 2004-12-30 2:41:09 PM|| 2004-12-30 2:41:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I would feel a LOT safer, if I thought that there is any truth to this story.

Posted by gromgorru 2004-12-30 2:44:25 PM|| 2004-12-30 2:44:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 So, the SWEDES gave them up to the CIA and allowed them to fly to Egypt? I wonder if the EU approved this?

Forcibly given Sedatives anally? Was Lyndie the Flight Nurse?

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-12-30 2:49:32 PM|| 2004-12-30 2:49:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 So, is The Herald competing with Jihad Unspun for the most ridiculous story?

Posted by GK 2004-12-30 2:56:14 PM|| 2004-12-30 2:56:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I am dizzy from all this spinning.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-30 3:04:21 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-30 3:04:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I love how they cut to the chase and called them "US torturers" - summed the whole thing up right there, IMHO.

Posted by .com 2004-12-30 3:07:45 PM|| 2004-12-30 3:07:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The only torture involved with those prisoners taken to Egypt were their lawyers crying wolf.

Posted by crazyhorse 2004-12-30 3:21:01 PM|| 2004-12-30 3:21:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Nice little interrogation technique there.

"You can either tell these nice Marines what they want to know, or we'll send you to Gitmo on the Ghost Jet. Quickly now: which do you choose?"

Posted by trailing daughter of the trailing wife 2004-12-30 3:54:42 PM|| 2004-12-30 3:54:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 To the Ghost Jet! Bring the anal sedatives!

Posted by Ghost Torturer 2004-12-30 4:02:06 PM|| 2004-12-30 4:02:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 TD was actually me here. I forgot to change the tag back after her "JK" post. Sorry for the confusion!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-30 4:17:51 PM|| 2004-12-30 4:17:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Space Ghost lives and he has a jet plane!

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-30 4:21:35 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-30 4:21:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Assuming any of this horse-pucky were true, it would be a problem because....?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-30 4:49:17 PM|| 2004-12-30 4:49:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Barbara - because the snacks suck, the drinks are watered down, the stewardesses don't show any leg, and worst of all....no credit to your frequent flyer miles.
That's really inhumane!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-12-30 4:55:22 PM|| 2004-12-30 4:55:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Thanks, DB - I see your point.

I think we should demand they be served better snacks, just to show that we're civilized people. Double rations on the pork rinds! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-30 5:56:57 PM|| 2004-12-30 5:56:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Double rations on the pork rinds!

And a triple Jack Daniels and Coke, please!

Posted by Parabellum 2004-12-30 6:00:12 PM|| [http://www.angelfire.com/moon/yoelnatan/koranwarpassages.htm] 2004-12-30 6:00:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Hey!
If they pull a knive you cash their check!

Don't dick around with escalation.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-30 7:39:35 PM|| 2004-12-30 7:39:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 "Ghost Air" mottos:
All Flights One Way
Flying You Closer To Allah
You'll Love Our Physical Touch
We're So Friendly We Want To Know All About You And Your Friends

Posted by Stephen 2004-12-30 8:37:19 PM|| 2004-12-30 8:37:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Do they give "anal sedatives"?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-30 9:18:22 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-30 9:18:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 doesn't surprise me that you knock their brain out of commission by anal sedative...

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-30 9:36:03 PM|| 2004-12-30 9:36:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 If you want someone to disappear you send them to Egypt."

No the Chilans figured this out years ago. Send the victim skydiving 100 miles out over water from 5,000 feet without a chute

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-12-30 9:44:29 PM|| 2004-12-30 9:44:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 What the hell. Give them a chute. Only sporting.

Posted by Tom 2004-12-30 9:48:27 PM|| 2004-12-30 9:48:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 a pack filled with newspapers...everybody loves a good gag

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-30 9:56:10 PM|| 2004-12-30 9:56:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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