Kathryn Cramer has been posting a lot of really good, soplid investigative material about the ongoign use of mercenrary fighters in Iraq, googling the tail-numbers of aircraft and generally net-researching the hell out of the shadowy world of soldiers-for-hire in a US-led battlefield. This is what Internet investigative journalism is all about:
Another question for the next White House Press conference: Did flight N4610 depart the U.S. from Hope Air Force Base in North Carolina?
ONE MINOR FUSSY POINT: If you've been following my attempts to track down all the Boeing C-22Bs, you know that I have had a little bit of a hard time tracking down exactly how many there were. I thought I'd cut it down to four, but this photo of a C-22B, on the web site of the U. S. Air Force, clearly shows a plane with a number just beyond the sequence I was researching: the 34618 indicates a serial number 83-4618 associated with an original tail number N4618. Interesting.
(Thanks, Karl!)
