[narconews] Conroy: Mysterious Jet Crash Is Rare Portal Into the “Dark Alliances” of the Drug War
 
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:47:02 -0600 (CST)

November 18, 2007
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Dear Colleague:

A recent plane crash in Mexico has created a firestorm of speculation
on the Internet and in certain press outlets on the old question of
"dark alliances" between U.S. government agencies -- particularly the
CIA -- and drug trafficking. Bill Conroy, reports that at least one
name connected to this affair overlaps with the "Bogota Connection" -
the case of DEA corruption in Colombia that Narco News uncovered and
has reported on for nearly two years.

Conroy writes:

"The Gulfstream II aircraft that crashed on the Yucatan Peninsula
outside of Cancun in late September while laden with some four tons
of cocaine has been the subject of considerable media and blogger
attention in recent weeks.

"Some reports have alleged the errant plane was previously used
between 2003 and 2005 by the CIA for several flights to the infamous
U.S. 'terrorist' prison camp in Guantamano Bay. The fact that the
ownership of the aircraft apparently switched hands twice within
weeks of the crash, helping to obscure its ownership, has only
further fueled media and Internet speculation that the jet's illegal
payload was being transported as part of some larger U.S. government
black operation.

"All that might be true -- or not. But Narco News has uncovered at
least one fact that is certain to deepen the mystery surrounding the
crash of the jet whose tail number, N987SA, is now affixed in the
lexicon of CIA folklore."

Read the full report in The Narco News Bulletin:

http://www.narconews.com

 From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

Dan Feder
Editor-in-Chief
The Narco News Bulletin
www.narconews.com

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