Terror suspects' torture claims have Mass. link

[Rose Siding]

DEDHAM -- Most here know Hill & Plakias as a family law firm that handles real estate and civil squabbles for the residents of this Boston suburb
But the inconspicuous office above a Sovereign Bank, across from the red, white, and blue flags of a used car lot called Patriot Motors, is also the address of a shadowy company that owns a Gulfstream jet that secretly ferried two Al Qaeda suspects from Sweden to Egypt.

That prisoner transfer, which occurred outside the normal extradition procedures and without notifying the men's lawyers, sparked an international uproar after the two men contended that they had been forcibly drugged by masked US agents and tortured with electric shocks in Egypt.
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Sightings of the plane -- at refueling stops in Ireland and in Karachi, where it reportedly picked up another suspect -- have been published in newspapers across the globe and on the Internet. Records at the US Army Aeronautical Services Agency show the civil aircraft has a permit to land at US military bases worldwide.

But in Massachusetts, little is known about the jet, apparently even by the lawyer who serves as the public face of the company that owns it.

"I'm not at liberty to discuss the affairs of the client business, mainly for reasons I don't know," said Dean Plakias, whose Washington Street firm in Dedham is listed as the legal local representative of the company.......

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/11/29/terror_suspects_torture_claims_have_mass_link/

[AP]

1. Sounds like this is inspired by plot of Body Heat with William Hirt.

Hire a dumb lawyer to do some legal business in area outside his expertise that you know is over his head because you know a smart lawyer would figure out the crime you're committing.

<<<<<<<<SPOILER>>>>>>>>

In Body Heat, part of the crime, of course, was setting up the lawyer to take the fall.

[Ian David]

3. Recent plane crash epidemic

Is there a connection between this firm and all the Democrats that have been in small plane crashes lately?

For that matter, is there a link to the plane that was carrying Mel Carnahan?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Woops

wrong thread