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Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

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Kepler said:
They have a different understanding of "due process." :cool:
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I recall back in the 80s when various groups were kidnapping foreign nationals in Beirut, including a CIA station chief. They then kidnapped a Soviet embassy employee. A few members of one of the suspect groups were picked up, castrated, mutilated and deposited in the street. Strangely, no other Soviets were kidnapped from then on.
 
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Some backtracking on yesterday's Pakistani arrest, at least according to the PRC.

Meanwhile, this is why we do TRRs and FATs.
 
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Kepler said:
Some backtracking on yesterday's Pakistani arrest, at least according to the PRC.

Meanwhile, this is why we do TRRs and FATs.
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Perhaps he should have used nitrogen fertilizer instead of manure. :D

(I wonder how many other people on this board know what TRR and FAT stand for.)
 
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I don't know if it was the concept of 'fighting them over there' or the general approach to more aggressive foriegn policy...but I just found a poll that looks at some fruits of a more positive approach to international relations.

http://pewglobal.org/2009/07/23/confidence-in-obama-lifts-us-image-around-the-world/

More relevantly, those in Jordan and Pakistan have moved from about 55% and 45% respectively saying that suicide bombings were sometimes justified in 2004/5 to 12% and 5% respectively in 2009.
 
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Yikes.

The Defense Department is unable to properly account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil revenue entrusted to it between 2004 and 2007, according to a newly released audit that underscores a pattern of poor record-keeping during the war.
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"Poor record-keeping"? :confused:
 
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Yikes.



"Poor record-keeping"? :confused:
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Apparently, you are ignorant of governmental accounting practices. Debits and credits don't always have to add up. ;)

That said, if people in the US were truly aware of how much money was squandered in various rabbit-holes around the world, they'd probably burn DC to the ground.
 
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Squandered I can deal with...lost is another story!
 
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But the FBI's approach has come under fire from some Muslims, criticism that surfaced again late last month after agents arrested an Oregon man they said tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. FBI technicians had supplied the device.

In the Irvine case, Monteilh's mission as an informant backfired. Muslims were so alarmed by his talk of violent jihad that they obtained a restraining order against him.

He had helped build a terrorism-related case against a mosque member, but that also collapsed. The Justice Department recently took the extraordinary step of dropping charges against the worshiper, who Monteilh had caught on tape agreeing to blow up buildings, law enforcement officials said. Prosecutors had portrayed the man as a dire threat.

Compounding the damage, Monteilh has gone public, revealing secret FBI methods and charging that his "handlers" trained him to entrap Muslims as he infiltrated their mosques, homes and businesses. He is now suing the FBI.

Officials declined to comment on specific details of Monteilh's tale but confirm that he was a paid FBI informant. Court records and interviews corroborate not only that Monteilh worked for the FBI - he says he made $177,000, tax-free, in 15 months - but that he provided vital information on a number of cases.
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