Monday, March 21, 2005

Nazified

We're there folks.
A Gulfstream jet owned by a part owner of the Boston Red Sox is also used by the US government for missions around the world.

Team vice chairman Phillip H. Morse, a businessman who made a fortune developing cardiac catheters, leases the Gulfstream IV jet with a Hudson, N.Y., charter agent when he is not using it. The jet sometimes has a small Red Sox logo on the fuselage near the door.

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When the plane flies for Morse, it sports the Red Sox logo on the tail, but the logo is masked for most government missions, Richards said. ''He loves the team and he loves to advertise them," Richards said. ''When the plane goes out of the country, we cover it up."
  Boston.com article

This particular jet seems to be being used to transport people to Guantanamo.
Mahlon Richards, a co-owner of Richmor Aviation in Hudson, N.Y., which leases the plane on Morse's behalf, said there is no evidence that the plane was ever used to transport Abu Omar or any other prisoner. Richards said he thinks the plane transports only US government workers.

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Richards, who said he has leased the plane to do government work for years under a subcontract with a larger government defense contractor, said he does not know where the plane goes and neither does Morse. ''That wouldn't be any of our business," he said.

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"As far as I know, those are just government people going back to work," he said, noting the plane's many journeys from Washington to the US base at Guantanamo Bay, where Al Qaeda suspects are held. "We don't know what they do. We pick them up. We drop them off, and we do what they tell us. We're just driving the bus."

We're just driving the trains.

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