Mysterious Jet tied to Torture Flights

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&ncid=2027&e=1&u=/chitribts/20050108/ts_chicagotrib/mysteriousjettiedtotortureflights

Here's a small part of VERY interesting read...

According to federal records, Bayard Foreign Marketing is the newest owner of a U.S.-registered Gulfstream V executive jet reportedly used since Sept. 11, 2001, to transport suspected Al Qaeda operatives to countries such as Egypt and Syria, where some of them claim to have later been tortured.

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1. Well, we've known for awhile that they were doing this.

The abuses of enemy combatants in our own prisons are bad enough. I hate to think of what these "rendered" prisoners have to go through.

Since Sept. 11, unnamed U.S. officials have been quoted in several publications discussing the U.S. practice of "rendition," which involves sending suspected terrorists or Al Qaeda supporters captured abroad for interrogation to countries where human rights are not traditionally respected.

Does America respect human rights at all anymore? I see no evidence that it does.

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2. The Washington Post did a similar story last week

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27826-2004Dec26.html

"Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 27, 2004; Page A01


The airplane is a Gulfstream V turbojet, the sort favored by CEOs and celebrities. But since 2001 it has been seen at military airports from Pakistan to Indonesia to Jordan, sometimes being boarded by hooded and handcuffed passengers.

The plane's owner of record, Premier Executive Transport Services Inc., lists directors and officers who appear to exist only on paper. And each one of those directors and officers has a recently issued Social Security number and an address consisting only of a post office box, according to an extensive search of state, federal and commercial records.

Bryan P. Dyess, Steven E. Kent, Timothy R. Sperling and Audrey M. Tailor are names without residential, work, telephone or corporate histories -- just the kind of "sterile identities," said current and former intelligence officials, that the CIA uses to conceal involvement in clandestine operations. In this case, the agency is flying captured terrorist suspects from one country to another for detention and interrogation.

The CIA calls this activity "rendition." Premier Executive's Gulfstream helps make it possible. According to civilian aircraft landing permits, the jet has permission to use U.S. military airfields worldwide."

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3. Bayard Foreign Marketing, LLC

921 SW WASHINGTON ST STE 755
PORTLAND OR 97205

REGISTERED AGENT: SCOTT D CAPLAN
921 SW WASHINGTON ST STE 755
PORTLAND OR 97205

MEMBER: LEONARD T BAYARD
921 SW WASHINGTON ST STE 755
PORTLAND OR 97205

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