US Soldiers vandalise jets at airport - no charges made.

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report

Saturday July 26, 2003 16:00

by newshound

Three 727s, a 737, a 747 and the terminal 'pillaged'.

According to former soldier and syndicated journalist Brian Cloughley,
The 3rd Infantry division has gone on a pillaging spree in Baghdad airport taking comfy seats, breaking windows in the terminal, taking what they want and leaving it in a state that "would make the Aegean Stables look like a Tiffany’s window."

In an article in the Daily Times of Pakistan, he compares and contrasts their oafish looting and destruction to Mary's action -which involved no theft.

quick cut and paste of some comments from the article.

"The place was immaculate before 3rd Infantry Division arrived, but was then looted of ‘alcohol, cassettes, perfume, cigarettes, and expensive watches’ from the duty-free shop. According to Lieutenant John Welsh, the Civil Affairs officer responsible for restoring the airport to its pre-3 Division state, “Terminal windows were smashed and almost every door in the building was broken.” The table around which Welsh and Iraqi officials had conferred was, ‘a week later, a pile of glass and splintered wood’.

Of course the damage to facilities doesn’t matter much in practical terms, because the Halliburton company (recent CEO, Dick Cheney) will rebuild the place at the US taxpayers’ expense.

There is no doubt that Mary Kelly had a smashing time with a US Navy Boeing 737 aircraft at Shannon early this year. She had a thorough go at it with a hatchet, in fact, and has admitted, yea, proudly announced that she did it and would, by golly, do it again if given an opportunity. Not for her the goodies of Shannon’s duty-free shop: no sir; she wanted to stop US aircraft being used in support of the war on Iraq and decided to make her feelings known to the world. So she grabbed her trusty axe/And gave the Boeing several whacks (this was in Limerick, after all), and was arrested and charged by the Irish Police.

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It's a good article check it out.