WASHINGTON - An Ambien-gobbling newcomer destitute for observant he had explosives on a moody was an ex-Air Commando and flashy fight oldster with a tip security clearance, the Daily News has learned.The detain Tuesday of executive Derek Stansberry, 27, of Easthampton, Mass., for interfering with a moody organisation and fake threats additionally burst open a window on problematic U.S. counterterror operations in West Africa.He worked for Eatontown, N.J.-based R4 Inc., that provides troops services to U.S. Africa Command, authority orator Vince Crawley said.Stansberry had a Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information clearway when he left the Air Force after 4 years last Jun following avocation in Iraq and Afghanistan, pronounced Capt. Lisa Citino of the murky 1st Special Operations Wing.He was an comprehension airman with the chosen 4th Special Operations Squadron "Ghostriders," who fly AC-130 Spooky gunships, Citino confirmed.R4 officials refused to criticism on Stansberry or their operations in the bankrupt West African republic of Burkina Faso, where he was based.Last year, the State Department pronounced it "has the intensity of apropos a militant protected haven," and Green Berets lerned the majority-Muslim countrys military.A counterterror central pronounced "bad guys probably movement by Burkina Faso," that is nearby Al Qaeda prohibited spots.A print of a whiskered Stansberry on his Facebook page - not long ago retitled "Derek Berry" - shows him in the cockpit of a PC-12 Spectre, a turboprop used for personal notice and paramilitary missions.He was returning home from 3 months in Africa when he was nabbed by 4 sovereign air marshals on a Delta Airlines Paris-to-Atlanta moody after claiming he had impressive person in his boots and laptop, prosecutors charge. He told agents he had eaten eight Ambien sleeping pills and "had a explosve in sequence to obstruct courtesy from the actuality he had personal information."jmeek@nydailynews.com
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