January 24, 2006

Just a Little "Search and Replace" Exercise with Today's News Out of Egypt

Dozens reported dead and wounded in Aspen, Colorado blasts**
Pool Coverage by Rodney G. Wentworth, ("Aspen Social Calendar"), Jack White ("Let's Ski Aspen!") and Jennifer Tiffany Beal, New York Times Spa Critic

Three explosions rocked Colorado Rocky Mountain resort town of Aspen on Monday night, leaving at least 30 people dead and 160 wounded.One blast hit the St Regis Aspen hotel, a second Olive's restaurant and the third explosion rocked the Whole Foods Supermarket in the resort town's tourist area about 7:15 p.m. local time (1715 GMT). Colorado authorities said the blasts were likely not caused by suicide

bombers but rather bombs that had been planted.

This is high tourist season in Aspen with many high net-worth individuals bringing in their private jets and families for a Mothers' Day weekend, and and hotels from Glory Hole Park to West Main Street could be expected to be at near capacity.

"There is smoke coming from the area and from the ski slopes and there are people running everywhere," said a local waiter, who did not want to be named.

Body parts and debris were seen in the streets outside the St Regis Aspen after an explosion in the lobby near the Valet Parking station, other residents said. One visitor said cars and limos attempting to leave Aspen were being stopped by police, and the usual "walk-on" treatment of those in private jets was being temporairly halted.

"There were body parts and debris in the street ... There are ambulances and cars taking people to hospital," said another resident Aspen waiter who also did not want to be named.

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"And How the Dems are Working to Make it Real" could be added to the title.

Read this:

GatewayPundit refreshes memories of Dana's "Hobbyist Plane Spotters" and puts together the dots that plan was to destroy
relationships with EURO/ALLIES Intel Services

Mary McCarthy, Hobbyist Plane Spotters, Frog Marching & Ty Cobb

Since Sept. 11, 2001, secret renditions have become a principal weapon in the CIA's arsenal against suspected al Qaeda terrorists, according to congressional testimony by CIA officials. But as the practice has grown, the agency has had significantly more difficulty keeping it secret.

According to airport officials, public documents and hobbyist plane spotters, the Gulfstream V, with tail number N379P, has been used to whisk detainees into or out of Jakarta, Indonesia; Pakistan; Egypt; and Sweden, usually at night, and has landed at well-known U.S. government refueling stops.
Dana Priest
"Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War"
Washington Post
December 27, 2004

** We now can conclude that Dana Priest did not gather her information from "Hobbyist plane spotters" but rather from a very high level official in the CIA.

Ms. McCarthy had impeccable timing in releasing her information to the Pulitzer winner, Priest. This news on November 2, 2005, made the Secretary of State's trip to Europe a battle to deflect questions on the pracice of rendition and secret prisons from the agitated European press whose governments had known about the practice for years.

History News Network has this take:

When you look at the timing of the leak you see how Mary O. McCarthy not only tried to prevent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from enlarging the American anti- terrorist coalition but put significant pressure on its existing coalition partners.

Ms. McCarthy was no whistle blower.

Also, this secretive practice of rendition that Condoleezza Rice defended in her trip was initiated under the watchful eyes of Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke:

The CIA's controversial "rendition" program to have terror suspects captured and questioned on foreign soil was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US counterterrorism agent told a German newspaper.

Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned from the agency in 2004, told Thursday's issue of the newsweekly Die Zeit that the US administration had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system.

If you care, you'll want to read it all and follow the many links.

Excellent work by Jim at GatewayPundits.

Posted by: LARWYN at April 25, 2006 12:04 PM
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