<By The Way... two quotes from this source (below)

First, the KNOWN heritage of that base and that airplane....

"In separate interviews with me, however, a former C.I.A. station chief and a former military intelligence analyst said that the camp near Salman Pak had been built not for terrorism training but for counter-terrorism training. In the mid-eighties, Islamic terrorists were routinely hijacking aircraft. In 1986, an Iraqi airliner was seized by pro-Iranian extremists and crashed, after a hand grenade was triggered, killing at least sixty-five people. (At the time, Iran and Iraq were at war, and America favored Iraq.) Iraq then sought assistance from the West, and got what it wanted from Britain’s MI6. The C.I.A. offered similar training in counter-terrorism throughout the Middle East. “We were helping our allies everywhere we had a liaison,” the former station chief told me."

also, from the same source:

"The former C.I.A. official noted, however, that terrorists would not practice on airplanes in the open. “That’s Hollywood rinky-dink stuff,” the former agent said. “They train in basements. You don’t need a real airplane to practice hijacking."

--- from http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact by Seymour M. Hersh

(don't recall the convention Robert wanted us to use for citations)

Funny, huh... Sounds like reasonable people can disagree about that 'smoking gun'

Notice, we have had that site in our grasp for a month+10days and darned if I don't hear ANYTHING about it, even in the conservative rags...

Funny, huh?

Gotta practice good conservative values and trust big brother?? ummm... right?

Davin L.