You, too, can fly under the radar on the new Trans Espionage airline

By DALE MCFEATTERS
GUEST COLUMNIST

Waited a little too long to book your summer vacation flight to Europe? Ticket prices rising and reservations scarce?

There may be help from an unusual source, an unscheduled, deliberately underpublicized air carrier that has flown at least 1,000 flights to Europe and to as many as 37 nations, if you believe the angry folks at the European Council.

The operator is the CIA, and the Europeans are angry, officially at least, that the agency has used their airspace and their airfields to shuttle terrorism suspects from one secret prison to another.

The Bush administration is upset that word of these operations leaked. Clearly, some positive PR is in order. And what better builder of good will than letting hard-pressed American vacationers share these flights? Just ignore the terrorists shackled to the bulkhead ...

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