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2006-01-14 India-Pakistan

US unusually optimistic about reports out of Pakistan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-14 04:58|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Who's the top guy now, then?

Posted by Jake-the-Peg 2006-01-14 05:19|| 2006-01-14 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to revisit:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2005/12/best_and_worst_.html

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-01-14 05:30|| 2006-01-14 05:30|| Front Page Top

#3 U.S. officials said killing Zawahiri would be the biggest success so far in Washington's war on terrorism, but it could also spark a backlash from Al Qaeda sympathizers around the world.

When read quickly, the second part of the sentence seems to say that the 'U.S. officials' said a backlash would occur; then I looked at the link and realized it's the L.A. Times editorializing yet again in a news article.

Posted by Raj 2006-01-14 07:30|| 2006-01-14 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope this is true if so this is a huge huge sucess at just the right time too. Zarwahiri was the AQ man to Iran(AKA phase 3 WOT) and he was the smart one. By that I mean Zarwahiri leads with his brain not emotion like Zark. This will cripple AQ in Afghanistan badly and at the same time make Zark the top dog. Zark while he probably makes a great foot soldgier his making decisions on emotion of the moment with a especially brutal aspect for the sake of well being brutal makes his promotion a victory for US in the WOT. Although I hate to say it but if this is true and Zark moves up I would expect the LA times editoral to be true old Zark is going to be pissed and with full control his first order I would imagine would be full frontal assualt with maximum death anywere they can get the numbers. Of course these kind of offenses cant be held, loses hearts and minds, and burns the resources up but I dont think Zark sees that far out and is exactley why I think he would be a great leader for AQ well at least for our benefit.

Posted by C-Low 2006-01-14 08:15|| 2006-01-14 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 - "but it could also spark a backlash from Al Qaeda sympathizers around the world." is not editorializing but rather a weird (although widely accepted) distortion designed to divert people's attention in the information front of WWIV. It's another effort to get the US to think that if we ignored al-Qaeda, they would leave us alone. < /FAT CHANCE>

Posted by Whutch Threth6418 2006-01-14 09:46|| 2006-01-14 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Haven't seen this much speculation in a long time. Half the threads say we missed him (wishfull thinking from the left maybe) and half the threads say we got him. Either way stuff like this must freak them out, when a dozen missiles come out of nowhere in the middle of the night, in the middle of the desert.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-01-14 10:35|| 2006-01-14 10:35|| Front Page Top

#7 fired nine missiles
4 drones?
Maybe an engine upgrade or something entirely new or Paki BS?

Posted by 6 2006-01-14 10:46|| 2006-01-14 10:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Accurate counting is taught in the higher grades over there, 6. Most of the tribesman never get to that point. ;-) (Besides, I can't imagine worrying about counting stuff, when the world is suddenly going boom! around me. But I'm a bit of a wimp that way.)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-14 10:53|| 2006-01-14 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Also, the UAV's are generally high and quiet enough to be undetectable - except to highly sensed Paki lawmakers, of course. I call multi-BS on the Paks and the villagers...anything over two missiles was a multi-aircraft strike, probably set up by a UAV watching (and undetected...). If they find a forehead with an ugly knotty thing on it, we got him

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-14 11:40|| 2006-01-14 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 You can hear the UAV's but the jets are much higher, further away and usually out of hearing range thus making the mistake of thinking the UAV's fired the missles understandable.

The message our IO guys need to get out to the Pak villagers is "if you provide sanctuary to Zaw or Zark or any AQ you and your family will die in the hit".

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-01-14 11:48|| 2006-01-14 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 49 pan
Amen to the message.

Posted by 3dc 2006-01-14 12:08|| 2006-01-14 12:08|| Front Page Top

#12 "Thousands of other people were also watching the aircraft for half an hour"
Yeah, sure Haji, like we'd give the Z-man a half hour of warning. Sure.

Posted by Darrell 2006-01-14 13:06|| 2006-01-14 13:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Claiming it was a UAV hit does several things for the Pakistanis. It means there were no US citizens over their territory in a fighter/bomber, it puts this in the same category as the hit on the dude in Yemen a while back - or in the same category as the Israeli assasinations.

Posted by lotp 2006-01-14 14:40|| 2006-01-14 14:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Lots of the terrorists have ugly forehead thingies, from all the praying they do with their foreheads pressed to the ground, so just finding such debris isn't that helpful...

Posted by Flerert Whese8274 2006-01-14 15:27|| 2006-01-14 15:27|| Front Page Top

#15 pressing your forehead to the ground during praying doesn't do that. Having it pressed for years to the prison floor (while on all fours) may. Explains his nickname in Egypt: Dr. Sweet Cheeks

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-14 15:38|| 2006-01-14 15:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Frank G:
I thought it was a 'target' birthmark gift from Allan.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-01-14 19:08|| 2006-01-14 19:08|| Front Page Top

#17 heh heh - Inshal'lah

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-14 19:13|| 2006-01-14 19:13|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm waiting for the first reference to the mark inflicted by He Who Must Not be Named ...

but this guy is no Harry Potter.

Posted by lotp 2006-01-14 19:37|| 2006-01-14 19:37|| Front Page Top

#19 I sense the ice getting thinner.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-14 19:59|| 2006-01-14 19:59|| Front Page Top

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