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2002-07-02 Southeast Asia

U.S. troops to join 'exercise' against Abu Sayyaf

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-07-02 06:29 am|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 SF teams regularly train, evaluate & accompany untis down to squad/platoon level, especially recon elements. It is the only way to get the training job done. This article sounds more like "forgiveness" than "persmission", i.e this has got to have been going on all along, and now they are doing a bit of CYA.

BTW, notice how many terrs have been buying the farm recently?

Posted by Emery S. Almasy 2002-07-02 15:24:36|| 2002-07-02 15:24:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I've been thinking of starting a Dead Guys list, just to look it over now and then to gloat. I'd do all the entries in ~~strikethru~~.

By the way, back in December the Hindustan Times reported that a fellow namedZain Al-Abedin Hasan, a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, had been named as Binny's successor. Like all good terrorists, he goes under a pseudonym: Abu Zubaydah. Heh heh.

Posted by Fred 2002-07-02 19:31:57|| 2002-07-02 19:31:57|| Front Page Top

#3 It's pretty much a ruse, innit, Fred, to get around the Flips' constitutional proscription against foreign troops? The loophole is that US troops can "train," and they can "fight defensively" if attacked. Of course, if you drop a bunch of US "trainers" right in the middle of a bunch of nasty Flip Islamofascists, you surely can't stop them from "fighting defensively" until all those terr guys are snakebait, canya?

Posted by Bill Quick 2002-07-02 19:57:19|| [www.dailypundit.com] 2002-07-02 19:57:19|| Front Page Top

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