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| Argentina Seized Undeclared Weapons and Drugs on a US Military Aircraft | |
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| shure | Feb 18 2011, 01:09 PM Post #1 |
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Argentina seized undeclared weapons and drugs on a US military aircraft February 15, 2011 by Jack Blood http://deadlinelive.info/2011/02/15/argentina-seized-undeclared-weapons-and-drugs-on-a-us-military-aircraft/ sourced - http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/argentina-us-in-diplomatic-spat-20110215-1au1u.html Argentina and the United States are engaged in a diplomatic spat after Buenos Aires authorities seized what they say are undeclared weapons and drugs on a US military aircraft last week. The Argentine government on Monday said it planned to lodge a formal protest with Washington, while the US State Department said it was “puzzled and disturbed” by the seizure of what it claimed was routine equipment for training the Argentine federal police. Officials in Argentina said the US Air Force C-17 transport plane was searched and its cargo seized by customs officials on Thursday at Ezeiza International Airport after arriving with experts and material for a hostage rescue training exercise. In a statement late Sunday, President Cristina Kirchner’s government said it would lodge a protest with Washington and ask it to cooperate in a probe into the air force’s attempt “to violate Argentine laws by bringing in hidden material in an official shipment.” Argentina has said it seized “sensitive material” that had not been declared in a manifest submitted by the US embassy. “Among the material seized, which the State Department makes no reference to, are from weapons to different drugs, including various doses of morphine,” the foreign ministry said in Sunday’s statement. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said “we are puzzled and disturbed by the actions of Argentine officials,” adding they conducted what he called “an unusual and unannounced search of the aircraft’s cargo.” But he said the material seized was routine for exercises in which US military experts train the Argentine federal police in “advanced hostage rescue and crisis management techniques.” He said the “seized items include batteries, medicine, a rifle and communications equipment,” adding he had no information to “corroborate that rumour” that drugs were seized. Crowley said he had heard the serial number of one item was not documented, but added that the whole matter could “easily have been resolved on the ground by customs officials” rather than “escalated.” “We continue to call on the Argentine government to return our equipment,” he said, adding the United States regretted the training exercise was cancelled. He said Assistant US Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela at the weekend called Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and other officials to register “our great concern” about the incident. The Argentine foreign ministry statement said Valenzuela “refused to explain why they tried to pass this material.” Argentine officials said Valenzuela had contacted Timerman hopes of resolving the situation, and was said to have expressed “concern on behalf of the US Defence Department over the seizure of items related to the security of the United States.” The incident comes amid a chill in US-Argentine bilateral relations, and follows US President Barack Obama’s decision to exclude Argentina from his first scheduled trip in March to Latin America. Obama will travel to El Salvador, Brazil and Chile. Timerman reacted to this decision by saying that the United States has “more interests than friends.” He said Obama would not visit Argentina because “it won’t buy arms or even sign a defense agreement.” |
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| shure | Feb 18 2011, 01:13 PM Post #2 |
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Confiscated U.S. Military Cargo in Argentina Was For A South American Black Op; CIA Operatives Under Investigation February 16, 2011 by supermario ![]() The US Air Force C17 Globemaster retained in Buenos Aires by Mario Andrade http://deadlinelive.info/ 2/16/2011 Authorities in Argentina may not return the confiscated military cargo to the United States, despite the diplomatic outcry by the Obama administration and the State Department. The government of Argentina has now released more information about the so-called ‘security training cargo’ that was confiscated last week. Among the nearly one thousand cubic feet of confiscated cargo, customs officials found several weapons, wiretapping equipment, sophisticated GPS trackers, fake security uniforms, and psychotropic drugs, including expired doses of morphine. All the confiscated cargo was contained in wooden crates marked ’7th Special Forces Group, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina,’ according to Argentine journalist Walter Goobar. Some of the drugs found, according to Tercera Informacion News Service, were epinephrine, ketamine, alkaloid morphine sulfate, midazolam, naloxone, oxycontin, and the semi-synthetic opioid nalbuphine. The MercoPress News Agency reported that customs also found “highly-sensitive communication devices and a letter that read, in Spanish, ‘I am an American soldier, let my country know I’ve been arrested’.” This is a standard letter that U.S. servicemen use when they get captured in foreign countries, which seems to indicate that at least some of the cargo was being delivered to U.S. troops on the ground somewhere in South America. In light of this smuggling incident, authorities in Argentina have discovered a major black ops smuggling ring, involving several government officials, judges, and federal agents that receive and give the green light to such shipments, receiving orders directly from the U.S. Military SOUTHCOM (Southern Command). A lot of the equipment was labeled ‘Secret.’ The illegal cargo was apparently requested by former CIA and FBI agents, who are now working in the private sector in Argentina. The alleged purpose of the equipment was to train Argentine military forces for ‘hostage situations.’ These former (or apparently still active) CIA and FBI operatives are being investigated. The military aircraft, apparently a U.S.A.F. C-17 Globemaster III, with registration AMC-77184 is still confiscated inside the Ezeiza Airport in Argentina. On September of 2010, there was a similar incident, where the US Ambassador herself, Vilma Martinez, had to reject a shipment because it had a lot of undeclared suspicious equipment. Apparently, this time, authorities in Argentina have had a breakthrough in the black op weapons smuggling case. Many commentators believe the equipment was en-route to neighboring Bolivia. Developing… |
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