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Something Stinks

by BooMan
Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 07:19:28 PM EST

Color me skeptical. Apparently the CIA used a Predator drone to kill two al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. One of them was supposedly indicted for the 1998 African Embassy bombings and the other was supposedly responsible for the September bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.

It reminds me of the time that UK Telegraph 'found' a memo in Iraq that simultaneously proved that Mohammed Atta had been trained in Iraq and that Iraq really had sought uranium in Niger.

Something Stinks | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

We're killing a lot... (none / 0)

of "Al Qaeda operatives" in Pakistan lately. Looks like a last-ditch attempt by the Crawford Criminal to get Bin Laden. Sort of like a hail-Mary legacy pass.

by Ed J on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 08:08:46 PM EST

Re: We're killing a lot... (none / 0)

or it could just be bullshit.

by BooMan on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 11:18:40 PM EST
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Re: Something Stinks (none / 0)

The color looks good on you, Boo. ;-)

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 08:26:17 PM EST

Re: Something Stinks (none / 1)

Declare victory, throw a parade and fold the GWOT tents.

Declaring the bottom is the only way back up..

by anarchronarchist (mincers (-at-) hotmail (-dot-) com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 09:34:45 PM EST

Re: Something Stinks (none / 0)

Why do they bother?
Probably because a couple of ops hve been working on this disinfo project over the last five years and it was supposed to be finished about now.

by priscianus jr on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 10:58:25 PM EST

Re: Something Stinks (none / 0)

The Government never lies about their foreign policy missions, right Booman?

Blue Tidal Wave

by Mac G on Fri Jan 9th, 2009 at 01:56:37 AM EST

Re: Something Stinks (none / 0)

"They died preparing new acts of terror," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agency's actions are secret.

Unnamed sources were rumored to believe that the two men were being personally trained by the long-sought terrorist nemisis Emmanual Goldstein. However unnamed counterterrorism officials would neither confirm nor deny whether Goldstein was actually in the building at the time of the secret strike.

What part of "international war crimes" do you not understand?

by budr (budr at hughes net) on Fri Jan 9th, 2009 at 08:46:24 AM EST

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