CIA was responsible for Peruvian plane shootdown after all

Billions are spent on this so-called “war on drugs” and the crew of the CIA spy plane isn’t even able to communicate in Spanish with their Peruvian colleagues, with a plane shot down that had nothing to do with drug trafficking as a result.

By Okke Ornstein

Okke Ornstein is from the Netherlands where he worked for about 15 years in the wonderful world of television and radio before accidentally moving to Panama. Since then, he has been chased by gangsters and many unsuccessful attempts have been made to shut him up, have him thrown out of the country, or in jail for crimes against the honor. He published The Noriegaville News and Bananama Republic for some years (an award winning combination of investigative journalism, satire, analysis and opinion) until threats were getting out of hand and he closed it down - if the sites weren't hacked already. His written work in English can be found in publications ranging from The Narco News Bulletin to NewsMax - for the latter he dodged sniper fire and car bombs in Kabul, among other things. None of this has stopped him from briefly becoming a consultant for the election campaign of Miguel Antonio Bernal, a well known human rights activist who runs for mayor of Panama City. Ornstein continues to work as a journalist for publications in and outside of Panama, is writing a book, works as a consultant on media, real estate and sustainable development and runs a new publication called The Isthmian.

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I remember this case very well. I was in Panama already at the time and it was all over the news, night after night, and nobody believed that the “Americans” had nothing to do with it as they claimed.

Now there is this footage, and the sceptics were right. Billions are spent on this so-called “war on drugs” and the crew of the CIA spy plane isn’t even able to communicate in Spanish with their Peruvian colleagues, with a plane shot down that had nothing to do with drug trafficking as a result.

Another great detail I found how these bunglers decide not to “get a tail number because they might spot us”. Yeah, why would you actually try to verify anything if there’s a bunch of trigger-happy Peruvians flying next to you ready to take ‘em out, right?

The spin from nine years ago, when the US claimed the CIA pilots had tried everything to prevent the Peruvians from shooting, is now proven to be bullshit. They tried nothing. They’re apologizing for not recommending to take the plane down, that’s about as far as they go, and only after the plane is shot they yell for the massacre to stop. It’s simply murder in the sky.

So, Americans, this is your tax dollars at work in the lost “war on drugs”. Killing an innocent mother and child. Congratulations.

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  1. Jim in the US added these pithy words on March 1, 2010 | Permalink

    I am a former airline pilot and have logged over 15,000 hours flight time in all kinds of aircraft, airline and general aviation. This is the most disgusting, amateurish thing I have ever witnessed in over 25 years of flying. Not only on the part of the Peruvian Air Force, but the US pilots as well. It’s so startlingly clear to me that the Bowers’ airplane is just a bumping along little aircraft with no where near the range to get the ‘drogas’ to anywhere close to any of the known jumping off points. This reminds me so much of the Colombian ‘cash for guerrillas’ program that I wonder if Peru had something similar. Cold-blooded murder with my tax dollars.

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