think Iran-Contra........except this regime (I've stopped calling the Bush Admin, an administration, because it's not so any more), through overuse of security Classification, won't tell anybody why a CIA-affiliated airline is carrying drugs....

-5.75,-4.05 "The invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people"---George Carlin

San Diego Defense Firm Titan Corp.
Link in Mysterious 5.5 Ton Cocaine Bust
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
May 11 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker

The MadCowMorningNews has uncovered evidence implicating a San Diego defense contractor, The Titan Corporation, in fraud involving the shadowy St. Petersburg FL company involved in last month’s mysterious 5.5 ton cocaine seizure in Mexico.

Titan is already embroiled in major scandals which include the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison and conviction and a $28 million fine for fixing a Presidential election in the African state of Benin. The company is also receiving attention for its role as the biggest campaign contributor of disgraced former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham.

A MadCowMorningNews investigation of Titan Corp. also revealed that the firm has a curious and so-far unexplained connection to Makram Chams, a mysterious Lebanese man who provided assistance to Mohamed Atta and other terrorist hijackers in Venice Florida before the 9.11 attack.

Chams, who owned a convenience store in Venice, befriended and assisted the terrorist hijackers before disappearing after the 9.11 attack, leaving behind a thriving Kwik-Check mini-market which has since stood abandoned in the heart of the Venice business district.

Evidence in SEC filings recently brought to our attention reveal what happened to Chams: he went to work for Titan. According to documents filed by the company, Chams was a contractor working for Titan Corp in Saudi Arabia as recently as last year.

more twists and who knows what the truth factor here

Skyway has had a strange relationship with yet another defense contractor, Titan Corporation:

SkyWay Communications Holding Corp. (OTC BB: SWYC) and the Titan Corporation have entered into a teaming agreement for Titan to sell Skyways's high-speed airborne network services to the U.S. Government for use with selected military and homeland security applications. Under terms of the contract, SkyWay grants The Titan Corporation the rights to market and sell SkyWay Systems and Services to Government customers. The services consist of real-time Video Teleconferencing, High-Speed Internet Access and Data, Telecommunications, In-Flight Video Surveillance, Air Filtration System Monitoring, Flight Management Avionics Data Link and Multiyear Data Archiving.

This is all very intriguing -- because Skyway's "services" (as investors discovered) were bogus.

And then lots of interesting stuff... and then an excellent question.

Let's focus on what we know.

We know that TomaHawk and (Brent) Wilke's ADCS somehow got hold of many a taxpayer dollar. We know that Intergraph, under David Stinson, was involved in their dealings. And we know that -- according to Hopsicker -- this same David Stinson moved to Titan and tossed a ton of money into Skyway, even though Skyway was running an obvious con.

So. Just how many plane-loads of coke entered the United States before the great bust? And who profited?

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Indeed.

Reputed Cocaine Kingpin Arrested in Brazil

Thursday May 18, 2006 2:16 AM
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN
Associated Press writer

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - One of the world's most hunted drug traffickers - accused of shipping more than 70 tons of cocaine to the United States - has been arrested in Brazil as part of an international crackdown, officials said Wednesday.

Colombian-born Pablo Rayo Montano, who had been on the run for a decade, was captured Tuesday in Sao Paulo as part of an operation coordinated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and involving anti-drug police in eight other countries.

More than three dozen others were arrested during simultaneous raids in the United States and Latin America, U.S. and Colombian anti-drug officials said. Authorities also seized control of three islands off the coast of Panama, a trove of artwork, real estate holdings, yachts and millions in cash.

``The Rayo-Montano trafficking organization ranked up there with Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel in terms of the amount of cocaine it was able to smuggle into the United States,'' Dave Gaddis, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Bogota, Colombia, told The Associated Press.

Colombia-based Escobar was among the world's most notorious drug traffickers, ruling the illegal drug trade during the 1980s. He was killed in a shootout with police in 1993.

Called Twin Oceans, the operation targeted a major drug cartel that shipped cocaine from clandestine ports along Colombia's coast to the United States and Europe.

``The Rayo-Montano organization had its own private, rogue navy to run a drug business that was nearly as sophisticated as a small nation,'' said DEA administrator Karen P. Tandy in a press release.

Also arrested were Rayo-Montano's top deputies - Jackson Orozco-Gil, his brother Domingo, and Mars Micolta-Hurtado - who allegedly oversaw operations along colombia's Carribbean coast.

The DEA said nine countries have been involved in the investigation for three years. It said that during that period the countries - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Mexico and the United States - have arrested more than 100 people and seized 47.5 tons of cocaine and nearly $70 million in assets.

``It's estimated the amount of cocaine supplied by this organization was enough to poison 37 million consumers,'' Colombia's anti-narcotics police said in a statement.

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grains of salt, graines of salt...

PORTER GOSS RESIGNATION SOLVED:
DC9 WITH 5.5 TONS OF COCAINE WAS CIA PLANE

WORLD EXCLUSIVE
May 25 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker

The “mystery” of Porter Goss’ resignation last month as CIA Director is apparently directly related to the huge seizure in Mexico several weeks earlier of over 5.5 tons of cocaine, according to government documents recently obtained by the The MadCowMorningNews.

After Goss’s surprise resignation last month he told reporters his reason for resigning was "just one of those mysteries," offering no other explanation for his sudden departure after almost two years on the job.

Goss’ resignation appears to be connected to the unprecedented withholding by the Federal Aviation Administration of the registration records for the DC9 (N900SA) which more than six weeks ago was caught carrying a cargo of five-and-a-half tons of cocaine, neatly packed into 126 identical black suitcases at a jungle airstrip in the Yucatan.

At the time of the plane’s seizure on April 11, FAA officials stated the aircraft’s title records would become available to reporters within two weeks. Six weeks later that statement, in a phrase famous from the Watergate Scandal, has been rendered “inoperative.”

CIA "front" company "Who's Who"
However, the MadCowMorningNews was successful in obtaining the FAA records last week of the confiscated plane’s sister ship, an identical twin DC9 (N120NE) owned and operated by the same partnership. Both aircraft, painted to resemble U.S. Government aircraft from the Department of Homeland Security, were parked for several years at the general aviation terminal at Clearwater St Petersburg International Airport.

The registration records reveal that the past 'owners' of "Cocaine One's" identical twin are well-known 'front' companies of America's Central Intelligence Agency.

The twin to the DC9 bursting with 5.5 tons of cocaine is a CIA plane.

The plane’s owners over the past two decades, in fact, comprise a virtual Who’s Who of aviation companies known to serve as “fronts” for the CIA, whose true identities came to light during the Iran Contra Scandal.

Moreover, the FAA’s reluctance to release the registration of “Cocaine One,” which should already be a matter of public record, is the clearest possible indication that those registration records will disclose the same thing.

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Mexico & U.S. Ruling Parties Ties to Blow Bust

The MadCowMorningNews has learned new details in what is becoming a growing drug trafficking scandal implicating elements in the ruling parties in both Mexico and the US:

Released FAA registration records from the American-registered DC9 (N900SA) airline show that documents informing the FAA the plane had been exported to new owners in Venezuela were not submitted until after its seizure in Mexico.

Several top executives of SkyWays Aircraft, the American firm which owned the DC9 in partnership with Royal Sons Inc. of St Petersburg, FL. including the company’s President, James Kent, are former members of U.S. military intelligence, stated one of SkyWay’s original employees, who contacted us after seeing a previous story.

Mexican newspapers last week began openly speculating last week on the role of high officials in the ruling party of President Vicente Fox in the huge drug load…

They are also reporting that the DC9's flight from Caracas to an airport in the western Yucatan was not a one-of-a-kind occurrence, but that the airliner had made at least seven previous flights along the same route.

The DEA has made a deliberate effort to downplay the importance of the seizure, underestimating its value by hundreds of millions of dollars.

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