Some more Gitmo flights information.

I found the puddle jumper flights that dropped off and picked up and was only on the ground for about a half hour or 45 minutes.

However if you notice there were a few flights that Departed from Ft. Lauderdale EXECUTIVE airport, not the International airport, all small planes, Learjet 35 (6 passengers). The first flight was on 12/21, when Mattis was supposed to be there. That particular flight was on the ground for 1.27 hours, and when it left, it did NOT go back to Ft Laud Exec airport, it flew directly to Dulles: Tail No. BLK4. I’m guessing that was Gen’l Mattis.

THE SAME DAY, 12/21/2017, but long after Mattis left (at 12:30pm), ANOTHER Flight left from Ft Lauderdale EXECUTIVE airport, arriving at GITMO 18:20 (6:20pm). That plane (BLK5, Learjet 35, only carries 6 passengers) was on the ground at GITMO for 2 hours and 43 minutes. WHO WAS ON THIS FLIGHT from the private Executive airport? High profile inmates being brought to GITMO?

The same day, 12/21, there is a normal puddle jumper flight in and out of Ft Lauderdale Int’l airport (E145 seats 54 passengers).

The next day, 12/22/2017, we KNOW AG Jeff Sessions and his assistant visited GITMO. I think I found his flight (tail#ATN301) departing from Norfolk, VA, was on the ground at GITMO for 3.5 hrs, then flew back to Norfolk. LONG TIME TO BE ON THE GROUND AT GITMO, but this was a Boeing 763, which seats 180 passengers. So probably some troops and I am assuming that Jeff Sessions was on that plane…..and whomever was with him (inmates?, Troops?)

SAME DAY 12/22/2017, another flight on the ground a long time, departed from Jacksonville to GITMO, on the ground for 2.5 hours, then plane returns to Jacksonville (Tail# BSK293, a Boeing 738 which can seat 220 passengers ). This must be a “Christmas Sleigh” flight, although they were on the ground a pretty long time at GITMO for 2.5 hours. Its only a 2 hour flight between JAX and GITMO, so the crew didn’t need a break. So troops and processing inmates? Or just troops?

Anyone know if these long layover times are normal for these Christmas Sleighs to/from Norfolk and JAX?

Then on Dec 26, (Tail# BLK4, a Learjet 35, seats 6 passengers) another flight comes and goes to GITMO from Ft Lauderdale EXECUTIVE airport. High profile inmates? The “bushes”, maybe??

The same day, 12/26 there is a normal puddle jumper flight in and out of Ft Lauderdale Int’l airport (Learjet 45 seats 10).

SO…WHOSE ON THESE LEARJET 35s that fly in and out of Ft. Lauderdale EXECUTIVE airport, on small planes that only seat 6 people? Why can’t they use the normal puddle jumper the same day from the Int’l Airport? Is it because they are “high profile” INMATES that they don’t want them to be seen by the public???

If they aren’t High Profile INMATES, then who are on these planes?

I also posted separately today, on this website, that AZ National Guard is sending troops to GITMO for a 9 month STAY. Prison Population going up at GITMO? The Marines need help with their psychopathic inmates?

From here:- https://saintandrewstwinflame.com/2018/01/08/more-confirmation-about-guantanamo-bay-flights-jan-08-2018/

9-11 perps trial started December 4th 2017.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568255214/nations-largest-court-case-inches-along-in-guantanamo-bay?t=1536410623546

4th December, 2017.

A war court convenes this morning in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where five Middle Eastern men face death penalty charges for allegedly plotting and facilitating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Over the weekend, a plane carrying a military judge, prosecution and defense teams, interpreters, journalists and relatives of people killed in the 9/11 attacks flew from Washington to Cuba. The destination was Guantanamo Bay. Every other month or so for the past five and a half years, a war tribunal has assembled there. It has struggled to bring to trial five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks, including the alleged mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. That court begins its 26th session this morning. NPR's David Welna joins us now from just outside that courtroom.

David, you've been covering what could become the trial of the century there for years now. How is it that there's not even been a date set for the actual trial?

DAVID WELNA, BYLINE: Well, Rachel, it certainly has not been for lack of trying. Government prosecutors keep pressing the military judge to set a trial date. It's been more than five years since charges were brought against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and his four co-defendants. And earlier this year, those prosecutors wanted a trial in March. Their latest request was for January of 2019.

MARTIN: What's holding things up?

WELNA: Well, you know, this case is immensely complicated under the military commissions created to try these people. All the proceedings are being held here in Guantanamo as if they were in an actual war zone. And the military is, at the same time, victim, judge and prosecutor.

And this case is not just about mass murder. It's also about torture. A Senate report laid out how all five defendants were brutally interrogated for years in secret CIA-run prisons called black sites before being transferred to Guantanamo. And defense lawyers called these black sites crime scenes. But the government says they're classified, and it won't reveal either where they are or who is working at them. In fact, even though these secret prisons were supposed to be preserved, the presiding judge, without first notifying the defense teams, allowed one of those sites to be destroyed.

Yesterday, I talked with Walter Ruiz. He's the lead lawyer for one of the defendants. And Ruiz claims the reason this war court was created here was to cover up the CIA's conduct and withhold as much information as possible. Here's Ruiz.

WALTER RUIZ: Guantanamo, in terms of its isolation, was selected as a place they thought they could isolate and control. Right? They didn't feel like they could have that same type of isolation, that same type of control over a federal judge in a federal courtroom with the application of all of the current due process standards that we have in federal court.

WELNA: In fact, during the session starting today, Ruiz plans to argue that his client doesn't even belong in this war court. He contends there was no war between the U.S. and al-Qaida when the 9/11 attacks occurred and that those attacks should be treated as acts of terrorism rather than as war crimes and that federal courts are where they should be adjudicated.

MARTIN: So meanwhile, thousands of people, relatives of those who were killed on 9/11, have been waiting for justice for more than 16 years now. Any idea how much longer they're going to have to wait?

WELNA: Well, the defense teams expect it'll be years before this case gets to the trial stage. A separate case here was expected to come to trial early next year, but that's all up in the air now because three defense lawyers accused the government of illegally eavesdropping on them while they were meeting with their client.

So the judge in that case ordered Brigadier General John Baker, who manages the defense teams, to put those lawyers back on the case. And when Baker refused to do so, the judge slapped him with contempt of court and three weeks' confinement. He was freed a few days later, but this gives you an idea of how chaotic things are here in these war court trials.

MARTIN: And just - in seconds remaining, David, I mean what is Gitmo now? I mean, President Trump said he was going to load it up with bad dudes - his words. Has he kept that pledge?

WELNA: Not at all. Not a single new detainee has been sent here since Trump took office. In fact, he seems to have changed his mind about this place. After that truck mowed down bikers in New York on Halloween, Trump tweeted he'd love to send the driver to Guantanamo. But he said, statistically, that process takes much longer than going…

MARTIN: Yeah.

WELNA: …Through the federal system. And he's right.

MARTIN: NPR's David Welna. Thanks, David.