US denies breaking rules on bomb flights

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Newspapers have said two Airbus cargo jets loaded with U.S. bunker-busting bombs landed at Prestwick. British officials have not commented on the flights in detail but do not dispute those accounts.

"It appears that insofar as there are procedures for handling that kind of hazardous cargo, irrespective of what they are, it does appear that they were not followed," Beckett said.

But officials have since seemed to row back from that position, saying authorities are still studying whether any rules were broken. The Foreign Office refused to allow its spokesman to discuss the subject on the record on Thursday.

U.S. Defence Department spokesman Joe Carpenter said Washington had double checked its records of all flights since the reports emerged and found that it had not broken any procedures, in Britain or anywhere else.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=1364539§ion=news&src=rss/uk/topNews

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1. BBC link to story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5218036.stm

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2. The bush** admin doesn't break the rules, they MAKE the

rules. Don't the Brits know this by now?