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| January 19, 2010 | US Defence Secretary travels to India in `run-down' military aircraft | | Washington: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who is visiting New Delhi, was travelling in a military plane that has a run-down feel about it, according to the newsmen accompanying the CIA and White House veteran who has served seven Presidents. The military aircraft though fitted with all the accoutrements, has something of the feel of
a run-down hospital ward. According to a Financial Times report,the plane
undertaking
the 15-hour-long journey, has carpets that are shabby, grimy knobs and dials aplenty
and the decor could have been put together by a late-period Soviet interior designer..
Gates has an enviable record of working for President George W. Bush, during
which
time he presided over the successful surge in Iraq. This has given him massive
clout in the Obama administration, and his support for sending 30,000 more troops
may well have been decisive in the recent debate over Afghanistan. Himself a
low-key
guy, Gates slipped into jeans as soon as he was on board the airplane. He is known
to deal with problems with a common sense approach. Though, there is no mistaking
America's might, a second aircraft is also making the trip to India as a back-up. | |
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