The Coup and the U.S. Airbase in Honduras. Now you know the rest of the story
Information Clearing House / Nikolas Kozloff
26-Jul-2009 (one comment)

The mainstream media has once again dropped the ball on a key aspect of the ongoing story in Honduras: the U.S. airbase at Soto Cano, also known as Palmerola. Prior to the recent military coup d’etat President Manuel Zelaya declared that he would turn the base into a civilian airport, a move opposed by the former U.S. ambassador. What’s more Zelaya intended to carry out his project with Venezuelan financing.

For years prior to the coup the Honduran authorities had discussed the possibility of converting Palmerola into a civilian facility. Officials fretted that Toncontín, Tegucigalpa’s international airport, was too small and incapable of handling large commercial aircraft. An aging facility dating to 1948, Toncontín has a short runway and primitive navigation equipment. The facility is surrounded by hills which makes it one of the world’s more dangerous international airports.

Palmerola by contrast has the best runway in the country at 8,850 feet long and 165 feet wide. The airport was built more recently in the mid-1980s at a reported cost of $30 million and was used by the United States for supplying the Contras during America’s proxy war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as well as conducting counter-insurgency operations in El Salvador. At the height of the Contra war the U.S. had more than 5,000 soldiers stationed at Palmerola. Known as the Contras’ “unsinkable aircraft carrier,” the base housed Green Berets as well as CIA operat... >>>

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Farhad Kashani

Shah Gholam,   In all

by Farhad Kashani on Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:42 AM PDT

Shah Gholam,

 

In all honesty, it’s not your fault that you shamelessly open your mouth and spit propaganda and bullshit material like this. I know you learned that from your Islamist- Leftist friends. The fault lays with the world as a whole for not standing to all the garbage nonsense that IRI has been saying for the last 30 years when it creates pathetic lies to blame everything that happens in the world on America.

 

If the world would’ve stood in the face of your beloved Fascist regime and pushed it back, people like you would not have the audacity to make this outrageous hints and claims that America is behind this and that. If the world would’ve shove a big stick up IRIs you know what from the beginning, Iran would’ve been a free and prosperous country, Middle East would’ve absolutely happened, there will no such thing as Islamic Terrorism and America, Iran and the rest of the world’s security would’ve been guaranteed.

 

They let IRI get always with its bullshit so 30 years later, enemies of Iran like you have the audacity to make these remarks.

 

But that’s changing too. IRIs propaganda machine has suffered a severe blow, and back in the days if we had 5 people perpetuating its propaganda, now we have 2 or 3! And even those folks don‘t have the courage to use the same nickname they used to have since their support of IRI regime was well known around here!

 


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