The US military aircraft boarded by antiwar protestors at Scotland’s Glasgow-Prestwick airport was a C-130 from the Delaware Air National Guard. Various news reports say no US personnel were on board the cargo aircraft at the time of the “attack.” At lease one Scottish radio station reports that security for the aircraft was in the hands of airport officials. It was the third successive penetration at the airport by the group known as Trident Ploughshares, of which British officials arrested 17, reports the Scotsman.
U.S. Southern Command recently announced its first lethal strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in two months, and the first under a newly formed permanent counter-cartel task force. The U.S. is also reportedly planning to transfer MQ-9 drones to Colombia to bolster its counter-cartel efforts.