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2010-01-23 India-Pakistan

C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge in U.S. Drone Strikes

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Cause, meet effect.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-23 00:10|| 2010-01-23 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Payback's a biatch. However, I would hope that the CIA would be doing things a lot more personally, on the ground, and likely with a machete, to some of the more upper tier bad boys who got the bright idea.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-23 06:26|| 2010-01-23 06:26|| Front Page Top

#3 the price of a jackals meal

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-01-23 07:09|| 2010-01-23 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 They should be operating with this kind of conviction as long as someone wants to kill Americans.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-23 10:13|| 2010-01-23 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 They've been acquiring more drones to shoot missiles from, so we can expect an accelerating pace of this kind of thing. Carry on, O CIA operatives, with our thanks!

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-23 14:01|| 2010-01-23 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Too bad we aren't using BUFFs. The impact of a cluster of dumb bombs taking out an area and denying them infrastructure would send the message that there is a very high price to pay for their activities. Much more so than surgical strikes.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-01-23 14:33|| 2010-01-23 14:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Careful, AP, that's pretty close to an ARCLIGHT, and you know what that means ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-01-23 16:08|| 2010-01-23 16:08|| Front Page Top

#8 close enuf! Drinks!

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-23 16:27|| 2010-01-23 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 If you are a mooselimb and you get a drone dropped on your head, do you get 72 virgins?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-01-23 18:56|| 2010-01-23 18:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Cause, meet effect.

(too good not to post twice)

Posted by Mike Hunt 2010-01-23 21:20|| 2010-01-23 21:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm disappointed that they weren't doing this before now anyway.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-01-23 21:38|| 2010-01-23 21:38|| Front Page Top

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