Shannon airport now being used as US airforce parking lot?

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report

Sunday July 15, 2007 13:30

by Edward Horgan

Bastile Day at Shannon, 14 July 07
Two US Airforce Hercules C 130s, three OMNI air chartered US troop carriers, and a US airforce C5 Galaxy parked at Shannon airport, under guard by the Gardai and Irish Army.

Shannon Military Parking Lot?

Please excuse the quality of the photo - it was taken from over 2 miles away. It shows from the right, the tail of US Herc C 130, an OMNI air troop carrier, a C 5 Galaxy large military transport plane, just in front of the C5 is another Herc C 130, and to the left is a further OMNI air troop carrier. There was a further OMNI troop carrier to the right off the photo area.
The story from the airport authorities was that the C 5 came in with a spare engine for one of the Hercules C 130s. This seems a bit unlikely given the massive size of the C 5 Galaxy. DHL or any air transport company would deliver a C 130 engine for a fraction of the cost of sending a C5. Either way, Shannon airport is now being used as a parking lot for aircraft servicing the US war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the OMNI air chartered jets have been parked at Shannon of weeks now, and the two C 130 are almost a week at Shannon.
The message is that the US military are now using Shannon as one of their logistic hubs for exporting violence to the people of the world that the discredited Bush administration have judged to be the enemies of the US.
It is now time to stop this nonsense.
Do you care if your airport, and your country is being used to facilitate mass murder??????/