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2010-07-21 Home Front: WoT
'BMWs' Help Afghans Go AWOL From Texas Air Base
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Posted by tipper 2010-07-21 09:53|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Why isn’t this a huge deal? And I’m not talking about the “Mexican Momma’s need some lovin” angle. Look, you don’t travel from Texas, across the Canadian border, and up to Toronto on a shoestring. For one thing, even US citizens with proper identification (including passports) should expect that when crossing through a Canadian border check they might be subjected to enhanced scrutiny. So one would expect a person from a “country of interest” with limited resources attempting this route would automatically raise some suspicion. True, the US/Canadian border is long and porous. But taking these alternate routes would require skill, knowledge, and funding. Either way there must be a network associated with this pipeline. And excuse me, but in light of the recent reports of “rogue” ‘Ghanie soldiers attacking NATO troops I’m not willing to instantly accept the “they just want a better life” narrative. Hey…I’m willing to entertain the theory that maybe our spooks are intentionally taking some of these guys off the grid for future ops but something doesn’t smell right.
You would think that maybe – just maybe- some “journalist” out there would be looking to see if there might be something a bit more nefarious to this story. (BTW…didja see Lindsey was wearing jeans in the courtroom yesterday? - OMG)
Posted by DepotGuy 2010-07-21 11:20||   2010-07-21 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 A modern day love story...

"He was an Afghan fighter pilot with two wives and a dozen children and no penchant for learning languages. She was an unloved 240 pound daughter of vagabond farm workers who sorted underwear at Walmart. Although their lives and immigration status was against them, they found love on the run in America..."

"Mahmoud and Lupe" coming soon to a theatre near you.
Posted by Penguin 2010-07-21 12:08||   2010-07-21 12:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Assisting an American to desert would be treason. If you are not an American doing so what is it? If you are assisting a non-American what is the actual crime?

I know it's scummy but I should think there is a spy ring to round up and the fact that it continued shows a lot about the folks running the Air Base and the training program.
Posted by rjschwarz 2010-07-21 12:59||   2010-07-21 12:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Penguin, if this site had Sigs... I'd steal the entire paragraph.

0/ Flightless Fowl
Posted by Shipman 2010-07-21 13:31||   2010-07-21 13:31|| Front Page Top

#5 And the "I's" have it. Idiots, Incompetents & Infiltrators. Jesus, Joseph & Mary; when the next hit comes we're going to get really phuqued.

Get the ropes and machetes ready boys and girls, house cleaning time is bearing down on us.
Posted by Bob Phalet9424 2010-07-21 13:31||   2010-07-21 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't get 'em in a Wad Bob, we'll be fine. Worry about the rest of the planet.

Posted by Shipman 2010-07-21 13:33||   2010-07-21 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 By the way Shipman, without revealing too much of the plot, not only are they being chased by ICE, the FBI, and the CID, but also by a gang of teenage vampires.
Posted by Penguin 2010-07-21 15:37||   2010-07-21 15:37|| Front Page Top

#8 There are TONS of bars outside Lackland that are populated with thousands of Latinas. Young men + Young women = Romance (or something similar). I doubt that many of the Afghans going AWOL have some nefarious plans, they probably went to Hamburger Hill, the river walk, some of the "Gentlemen's Clubs", and decided that they might like it here than in the 7th Century of Afghanistan.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2010-07-21 16:39||   2010-07-21 16:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Would that make these 'BMWs' the Ultimate Deserting Machines????
Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-07-21 21:00||   2010-07-21 21:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Somebody spread the fertilizer broadly today -- y'all are sprouting all over the 'Burg!
Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-21 22:35||   2010-07-21 22:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Go to your room, USN, Ret.
Posted by Pappy 2010-07-21 23:12||   2010-07-21 23:12|| Front Page Top

#12 "BMWS" > D *** NG IT, not sure whether to demand "FTLG PICS, PEOPLE, PICS"

versus

"FTLG NO PICS, PEOPLE, NO PICS, KILL IT WID FIRE"! + "WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN, CANNOT BE UNSEEN"!

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Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-21 23:40||   2010-07-21 23:40|| Front Page Top

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