Rent-A-Coup

Posted on March 16, 2004 in Accountability Pointers

This failed coup is a scandal, a big scandal with a broad reach. The press needs to stop romanticizing (when not ignoring) the captive mercenaries, and get on with the business of actually covering the story. – Kathryn Cramer

It’s politics Tuesday and there is a single event that I want to call your attention to: the story behind the aborted Rent-A-Coup flight in Africa. Kathryn Cramer has covered this brilliantly in a series of articles on her blog:

• Military Privatization and the Mystery of N4610
  
• More on N4610
  
• Who Rented the Rent-a-Coup?
  
• N4610: More Names, a Face, & Some Conservative Thoughts
  
• A Question for Dick Cheney
  
• Report in Barbados: N4610 Departed U.S. from Air Force Base in North Carolina
  
• N4610 Has a Name: Clipper Pathfinder

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Pssst. Andrea. I nominate Kathryn for your Shameless Agitator Award.

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Then there is this story out of Camp X-Ray. Those who are concerned about Muslim women wearing the veil should consider the flip-side torture being used here.

Methinks it is time to ship the lot of the Bush Adminstration off to The Hague. This is World Court time.