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2004-12-13 Afghanistan/South Asia

Pakistan Denies CIA Has Bases on Its Soil

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Posted by Fred 2004-12-13 1:06:13 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 SOP.

Posted by .com 2004-12-13 1:07:20 PM|| 2004-12-13 1:07:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's also SOP for the Times and the WaPo to break stories like this one, that might do some damage to operations and maybe even get somebody killed.

Posted by Fred 2004-12-13 1:17:50 PM|| 2004-12-13 1:17:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred - too true... but then what's a humint life compared to a "breaking" story, eh? Hey, then they can decry the lack of humint with another round of stories. Win-win in MSM-think.

Posted by .com 2004-12-13 1:21:50 PM|| 2004-12-13 1:21:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Because we live according to the credo that your right to know supercedes your right to exist..."

-- Reporters in most of Gary Burbank's skits

(http://700wlw.com/garyburbank.html)

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-12-13 1:55:29 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-12-13 1:55:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Since late 1979 there's been a U.S. military presence in the NWFT and the FIT (primarily the Parchinar Salient area)..Initially we trained the muj to operate against the Soviets. Over the years, close but tenious ties were established with local tribesmen. These ties have greatly assisted our efforts to track down OBL and "foreign fighters" that remained in the region due to marriage among the locals.

Still blood is more important than friendship which is fleeting at best. It will take time to bring OBL (if he's still alive) out. I would suggest sometime around Pres. Bush's second inauguration.

Posted by Snoluck Thrusing8442 2004-12-13 10:50:41 PM|| 2004-12-13 10:50:41 PM|| Front Page Top