The Glade 4.0

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32840777/ns ... ws-africa/

From a chopper, they apparently took the guy out in his car. Pretty impressive. They had been tracking him in the area for some time. GG.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

"In Somalia... Killing is negotiation."

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The Dude abides.

We present for your edification, Monte. A rabid left wing zealot and shrill advocate for all things hippy. Having just posted a pro-US post on the message boards. A clever attempt at trolling or has he fallen and smacked his head on something hard? Only time will tell... time in The Hellfire Zone...

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Holy shitsnacks!

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Seriously?

Are you **** kidding me?

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Holy shitsnacks!

Apparently not. However, I now know what level of humor, sarcasm, and wit to use as the gold standard when deciding if a post is reportable. I just hope that history remembers which side set the tone, here.

Also, publicly objecting to moderation is generally frowned upon by everywhere I've seen moderation. Take it to PMs, is my advice, if you wish to register complaints.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

If that's going to be the rule in here. I'm out.

Srsly. If *that* was enough to earn a warning from whatever whiny little ***** reported me... I don't need to participate in Hellfire anymore.

Thanks, but no **** thanks.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It was a personal attack, Mus. Cry all you want.

Just like that? You're going to let the terrorists win?

As far as personal attacks go, if you're going to consider my post an attack... its pretty tame. My only consolation is that before long, the OP will have the banhammer down on him faster than Rosie O'Donnell on a cupcake shaped like a vagina.

Face it, there's no way he'll be able to keep up his newfound teacher's pet posting style, and its just a matter of time.

I'll be on the sidelines. Watching.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I already know what will happen.

To DFK and Arafys: Do I have to hold both of your **** hands?

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

No daddy. We can play nicely now. I promise to not throw any more tantrums.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Dude, Coro destroys the asses of those who refer to him as "daddy".

Poor choice of words.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

It's not my fault he uses a 1990's messenger service...

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Roight, back OT then.

Its awesome that the US can do this kind of thing. I wish they'd do it more often, and on a wider base of terrorists.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Precision bombing must be so fun.

Totally. Its gotta be like a video game, but better, cause its real

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Holy shitsnacks!

Helicopters don't drop bombs. The article indicates that the helicopter "strafed" the car, killing 2, and then troops on board got off and took 2 other wounded men.

It also indicates that the helicopter took off from a French warship. A representative from JSOC indicated 2 americans were involved, but that's all. I think this was a joint effort between us, the French, and possibly some others as well.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Interesting. The article I read said it was an American special forces op. Which doesn't mean we didn't get help from the french. Pretty cool if we did, though. International cooperation is a good thing when dealing with these guys.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

If you mean the article in the OP, the "French" part is at the very bottom where a witness says it was a French warship (easily identifiable by its flag).

When you're talking about any sort of SF operation, any official statement about who was involved is going to be given very carefully, if the operation is revealed at all. It may very well have been an "American" op in the sense that we researched the intel and planned it, even if we didn't provide the majority of the physical assets. Take any specifics of how it was conducted with a large grain of salt.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The article said that it was signed off on by the President, so I think it's safe to assume our assets were used.



So, we at least know that our forces were involved. The beginning of the article also claims the helicopters were ours. We can probably safely assume pilots and crew were American soldiers.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Authorization by the President has nothing to do with the logistics of how the operation was carried out. Obviously some of our assests were used, even if it was only 2 guys and their personal gear. That doesn't indicate that the majority of the assets used were ours.

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Yes, we already knew our forces were involved. We can assume that the helicopters and crews were american, but we can also assume the ship was French. That's all fine as long as we remember these are assumptions. What I'm trying to get across here is that the operational details of things like this are often obscure or intentionally misleading to protect intelligence, tactics, capabilities, etc. from the enemy. Assumptions, even safe ones, are assumptions.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Sounds good.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"