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[DemoTex]

A Plane is Shot Down and the US Proxy War on Drugs Unravels

When a small plane carrying US missionaries was shot down a few weeks ago in Peru, killing a young woman and her seven-month-old baby girl, it first seemed to be a tragic case of trigger-happy policing by the Peruvian air force.

But as more details emerge from the Andean jungle, it is clear this apparently isolated incident has a far greater significance. The deaths have helped yank the covers from the secret side of America's billion-dollar drug war in Latin America.

The missionaries' plane was shot down by a Peruvian military pilot, but it was first spotted and targeted by a US Cessna Citation surveillance plane patrolling the air routes between Peru and Colombia on the look out for cocaine traffickers.

The surveillance plane was piloted not by US military pilots but by private contractors who, according to US congressional officials, were hired by an Alabama-based company called Aviation Development Corporation (ADC). In the words of one outraged official: "There were just businessmen in that plane. They were accountable to no one but their bottom line." (my emphasis)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0602-02.htm

Put these two stories together and extrapolate out how much more dangerous Cheney's mercenary armies and air forces stand to get.

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On edit: The Alabama-based Aviation Development Corporation Cessna Citation crew involved in this heinous 2001 murder were CIA employees (New York Times).

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B12F63B5D0C7B8EDDAD0894D9404482&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fB%2fBowers%2c%20Veronica