Volume 52, Number 9 · May 26, 2005
Cat-and-Mouse Games
By Patrick Radden Keefe
Code Names: Deciphering US Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World
by William M. Arkin
Steerforth, 608 pp., $27.95
In the years since September 11, 2001, amateur plane spotters around the world have tracked the movements of what started out as an unidentified flying object, a phantom jet. The plane, a Gulfstream V, the kind of small, sleek private aircraft favored by movie stars and business executives, was first spotted in October 2001 in a remote stretch of the Karachi airport. Eight weeks later it appeared at Stockholm's Bromma Airport, then at a military airfield in Jakarta. Last fall the London Times reported that the plane had flown to some fifty destinations outside the US, from Guantánamo Bay to Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Afghan-istan, Libya, and Uzbekistan.
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