Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:35 pm
#1663883
mick w wrote:Sherburn
Shhh! Stealth!
mick w wrote:Sherburn
patowalker wrote:That's the point. Why publicise U2 flights from a British Overseas Territory?
If you can see an aircraft in this photograph, it doesn't exist.
kanga wrote:Whether, of course, U2s operating from Akrotiri have engaged in any other operations has, as far as I know, never been publicly acknowledged by UK or US authorities since; but operations over, eg, Kosovo have been alleged. Happy to be corrected.
</nostalgia >
kanga wrote:Whether, of course, U2s operating from Akrotiri have engaged in any other operations has, as far as I know, never been publicly acknowledged by UK or US authorities since; but operations over, eg, Kosovo have been alleged. Happy to be corrected.
U.S. spy planes flew reconnaissance flights over Lebanon from a British air base in Cyprus, leaked U.S. documents show, in a counter-terrorist surveillance operation requested by Lebanese officials.
The documents, which did not specify what the 2008 flights were monitoring, revealed Britain feared that if the imagery from the flights was used by the Lebanese army to capture and mistreat suspects, Britain could be seen as complicit.
British officials were also concerned that the Lebanese request for the intelligence flights, known as “Cedar Sweep,” had come solely from Lebanon’s Defense Ministry without endorsement from the government as a whole.
UK Task Force commanders were well aware of the Argentine C130 night flights to Port Stanley, ...
gasman wrote:Paul_Sengupta wrote:Who's Adrian White?
The greatest living Yorkshireman (after Dickie Bird/Patrick Stewart/Wilia Haigh/Jarvis Cocker etc.)