WTF does that have to do with anything? I'm sorry, but to start a serious article with a self-righteous complaint about something totally unrelated in anyway to what the article is talking about annoyed me beyond belief.
I'm surprised the article also didn't complain about Nelson Mandela being so discourteous to die over the weekend too.
an aircraft with the registration G-WIRG, an Embraer Legacy private jet, arriving and leaving on the same day.... Embraer, the Brazilian manufacturer of G-WIRG, also produces the R-99, a military variant of the Legacy, used for remote sensing and AWACS missions. Brazil uses such jets to patrol the controversial Amazon Surveillance System, while the Greek Air Force deployed an R-99 to monitor the no-fly zone over Libya in 2011. Embraer recently announced it would start building drones.
Wow, even the plane manufacturer is in on the conspiracy!
We don’t know how far G-WIRG got.... what strange manoeuvres along designated air corridors between and across nations, climbing and banking to avoid thunderheads and moral accountability.
Seriously. It actually says "Climbing and banking to avoid avoid thunderheads and moral accountability." The drama is overwhelming.
Also, this isn't a rendition[1], it's just a "normal" deportation. One might not agree with it, but calling it something that it isn't lessens the impact that real rendition cases have.
Edit: actually, I'm wrong about this. It is a rendition[2], just not an extraordinary rendition. I still think using the term "rendition" lessens the impact of the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition.