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by Pokey Anderson
Keep your coincidence caps handy, folks. People involved in elections and voting machine companies seem very unlucky. Especially those in Ohio (4 of the 7) and Georgia (2 of the 7).
–Pokey Anderson

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By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org
22 December 2008
Recently subpoenaed Bush/Rove IT expert is Wellstoned.
Michael Connell’s ill-fated flight originated from airport only 50 people can use. College Park Airport users are [...]

One of my sources died in a plane crash last night
Covert History
‘Karl Rove’s IT guru’ Mike Connell dies in plane crash
Allegedly Threatened by Rove, Now Dead in Small Plane Crash
An untimely death of a top GOP Internet strategist
This is an interesting development…
Connell Round-Up…
A Medical Explanation?
Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: [...]

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by Staff Writers
Bishkek (AFP) Dec 17, 2008
Kyrgyzstan is moving to close a key US military airbase used to support operations in Afghanistan, government sources told AFP on Wednesday.
“We are preparing the papers necessary to close the base,” a senior official in the Kyrgyz presidential administration said on condition of anonymity, confirming comments from sources in [...]

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The CIA’s clanedestine role in Latin American politics continues.
With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft between 1995 and 2001, ostensibly as part of the US-abetted war on drugs, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee revealed Thursday. Many of the shoot-downs were made without warning [...]

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Fifteen law enforcement officers and two others were charged Tuesday with providing security for drug shipments and other crimes that actually were staged as part of a series of elaborate FBI sting operations.

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By Steve Gunn
Religion News Service
Thursday, November 27, 2008
MUSKEGON, Mich. — A top-ranking Republican said he will call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged CIA cover-up in the 2001 military attack on a small plane in Peru that killed an American missionary and her infant child.

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By MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — An internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency has found that the agency withheld crucial information from federal investigators who spent years trying to determine whether C.I.A. officers committed crimes related to the accidental downing of a missionary plane in Peru in 2001.

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Also Thursday, a crime reporter was shot to death in border city of Juarez
msnbc.com news services
updated 11:41 a.m. PT, Thurs., Nov. 13, 2008
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Mexican soldiers have seized 19 light planes from a hangar near the U.S. border believed to be used by drug smuggling gangs, the army and Mexican media said on [...]

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h/t: blacklistednews.com
Here’s an update on the strange story of the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan last year. The Mexico City newspaper El Universal reports that European Parliament was investigating the circumstances surrounding the plane, which had previously been used by the CIA for “extraordinary rendition” flights.