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2021-10-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Biden forces legendary CIA chief of Iranian operations to retire

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Posted by Gleash Unuter7442 2021-10-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336116 views ] Top
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#1 The Fell Hand of Kalorama strikes. Anybody seen ValJar lately? Gone to Tehran, perchance?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-21 01:42|| 2021-10-21 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't D'Andrea another CIA Muslim convert?

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-10-21 08:15|| 2021-10-21 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ from or to?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-21 08:27|| 2021-10-21 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The article stated he was a convert to Islam.

Posted by Lonzo Hapsburg5562 2021-10-21 08:55|| 2021-10-21 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 What's the muzz equivalent of an Easter & Christmas Catholic?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-21 09:04|| 2021-10-21 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Unrestricted drone warfare against our prime terrorist enemies, can't have that anymore since the puppet Weekend at Bernie's President is immune to actual accountability. As long as Bidet/Jillie can be fed more graft, they will prop up the Big Guy as a facade for the cabal at Kalorama. While the Chinese have the biggest chair at the Presidium Central Committee, ValJar and her homies have a seat, and doing this guy has long been a goal I suspect.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-10-21 13:27|| 2021-10-21 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 nicknamed the “Dark Lord” or “Prince of Darkness”

“He was the grim reaper for the enemy.” The agency’s counterterrorism program under D’Andrea was “bone-crushing and relentless,” recalled this former official.

Yaknow, when you voluntarily and with gusto adopt the dark robes of villainy, maybe you need to reconsider if you're really on the good guys' side or not. Murdering civilians with drones doesn't strike me as heroic behavior.

“There came a point where the life expectancy of the al-Qaida chief of operations was about a month,” said the former senior official. “Every time they’d name a new guy, bam, he was gone.”

Boy, that put an end to them, didn't it? Oh wait it didn't. Whoops.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-21 14:00|| 2021-10-21 14:00|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Herb, is that you?

Posted by Frank G 2021-10-21 14:45|| 2021-10-21 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Herb@l Herb!

Posted by Caesar Speasing3432 2021-10-21 15:25|| 2021-10-21 15:25|| Front Page Top

#10 “Prince of Darkness”
Always and forever will refer to Lucas Electric.
(Loose Unsoldered Connections And Splices)

Posted by Glenmore 2021-10-21 15:31|| 2021-10-21 15:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Yaknow, when you voluntarily and with gusto adopt the dark robes of villainy

Angel of Death? Or perhaps, as appropriate for a convert to Islam, Inshallah, as a sentiment all pious Moslems should submit to.

The thing about having a rapid turnover in the upper levels of any organization, especially when resulting from rapid death in office rather than retirement, is the huge amount of institutional knowledge that evaporates, until nobody knows what projects are planned, what any of the computer passwords are... nor even where the spare executive bathroom key is kept.

This, my dear Mr. McCoy, is a good part of the reason why ambitious jihadis chose suddenly to run off to ISIS and other local organizations instead of hieing themselves off to the training camps on both sides of the Af-Pak border as they’d done so avidly in the first decade of the millennium.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-10-21 18:20|| 2021-10-21 18:20|| Front Page Top

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