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US commandos parachuted into N. Korea: report
AFP ^ | 5/28/12

Posted on 05/28/2012 4:07:47 PM PDT by EBH

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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thread bump!


61 posted on 05/28/2012 7:10:14 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A great victory for Free People. The day Salvador Allende was toppled. Study history. Learn lessons.)
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To: Criminal Number 18F

You made some points that I might have missed initially. Lets see. Maybe you are right.


62 posted on 05/28/2012 7:15:06 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A great victory for Free People. The day Salvador Allende was toppled. Study history. Learn lessons.)
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To: bramps
leary = leery

Leary is dead. No, no, no, no....he's outside looking in.

63 posted on 05/28/2012 7:24:09 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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To: Doogle

He’s stuck on stupid.


64 posted on 05/28/2012 7:32:20 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: edpc

well, I get it...


65 posted on 05/28/2012 8:11:54 PM PDT by steveo
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To: EBH
"Or is it happening because 0bama is a weak commander-in-chief and the generals are running rough-shod over him? "

hmmm....
7 days in May scenario?

66 posted on 05/28/2012 8:32:09 PM PDT by evad (STOP SPENDING, STOP SPENDING, STOP SPENDING. It's the SPENDING Stupid)
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To: balch3

Maybe they sent in a swarm of robot flies to go down into the tunnels and take pictures.

The Chinese and Koreans are probably reading this as I type it, so we might be phishing, hearing there are tunnels and after the release, listening.


67 posted on 05/28/2012 8:33:17 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: delapaz

hmmmm......perhaps you’re on to something there.


68 posted on 05/28/2012 8:46:30 PM PDT by onona (RIP Levon, another good man gone.)
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To: Criminal Number 18F
Read the story, went...whaaa??? First checked to make sure it was a real general, then went to see if it's even possible Axe was in the same place, then tripped across that other report. The original piece smells to high heavens that it was made up. And of course, AFP picked it up and ran with it.

Right now it's a blogger story claiming to quote a general picked up by AFP. It's memorial day, so it's quite possible this story dies today. If it carries over tomorrow, however, it'll be interesting to see how the administration mishandles it, while the Pentagon snorts and stoutly denies the quotes in this context.

Hopefully no one gets stupid and says ‘Oh, this never ever happened.’ Oh, right, the White House is always stuck on stupid, which means they'll be the ones saying it tomorrow morning.

69 posted on 05/28/2012 9:05:09 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: chooseascreennamepat

AKA treason


70 posted on 05/28/2012 10:00:15 PM PDT by FutureRocketMan
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To: chuckee
What US General would be authorized to alert the enemy through the media we have been surreptitiously inserting special forces into a country we have no formal war with.Who authorized him to announce this?

Either that or the objective is to send the NorKs out on a chinese fire drill, trying to locate agents for the round-eyed devils.

But then, Democrats have always been hazardous to HUMINT assets' health. (Maddy Halfbright losing a computer or two comes to mind.)

71 posted on 05/29/2012 3:17:37 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: balch3
This wasn’t a careless leak. It was done deliberately, and for a reason.

LOL! Yep. Maybe they'll get to observe the North Koreans as they go and check all the tunnels and facilities or double the guards...and see where what is and mebbe find some new ones...

72 posted on 05/29/2012 3:19:56 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: SgtBob

Yabbut, if someone watches where they chase...


73 posted on 05/29/2012 3:22:52 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: huldah1776
Maybe they sent in a swarm of robot flies to go down into the tunnels and take pictures.

This would make much more sense than sending men in. It also might make sense to see the reaction to this information. As someone points out...see where they place their assets and what they want to protect from prying eyes....

74 posted on 05/29/2012 4:19:41 AM PDT by EBH (Obama took away your American Dreams and replaced them with "Dreams from My (his) Father".)
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To: kingu

UPDATE

US military denies parachuting into N.Korea
http://news.yahoo.com/us-commandos-parachuted-n-korea-report-212356834.html

The US military Tuesday vehemently denied a media report that special forces had been parachuted into North Korea on intelligence-gathering missions, saying a source had been misquoted.

Current affairs magazine The Diplomat quoted Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of special forces in South Korea, as saying soldiers from the US and South Korea had been dropped across the border for “special reconnaissance” missions.

But Colonel Jonathan Withington, public affairs officer for US Forces Korea, said some reporting of the conference had taken Tolley “completely out of context”.

“Quotes have been made up and attributed to him,” he said, denying that any US or South Korean forces had parachuted into the North.


75 posted on 05/29/2012 4:23:55 AM PDT by EBH (Obama took away your American Dreams and replaced them with "Dreams from My (his) Father".)
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To: Criminal Number 18F

Thx for the clarification.


76 posted on 05/29/2012 4:31:23 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: EBH
But Colonel Jonathan Withington, public affairs officer for US Forces Korea, said some reporting of the conference had taken Tolley “completely out of context”. “Quotes have been made up and attributed to him,” he said, denying that any US or South Korean forces had parachuted into the North.

And there is the perfect example of an officer getting quoted right, and a reporter adding in the unsaid words. The PIO did not specifically get quoted saying that we've never parachuted into North Korea, but instead attacked the supposed quotes. Great handling of the situation.

Now watch as the White House steps into the landmine field and opens their mouths rather than referring any questions to the PIO in South Korea.

77 posted on 05/29/2012 6:38:46 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: EBH

Parachutists? They use airplanes, right? low, slow airplanes? Even Porky could spot a C-130 with his 3-D gogles on. But if the story gets porky and his pigs looking all over hell for rolled up chutes that’s fine with me.


78 posted on 05/29/2012 12:56:17 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: balch3
Disinformation gets my vote. This speech is a piece of deliberate recon activity. Stir up the NK security apparatus and watch them closely. In their reactions they will tell you where and what the key assets are.

Along with Iran, NK is probably the most fully satellite-monitored piece of real estate in the world today. If they are digging major new tunnels and underground airbases we already know where they are. But it is always useful to trigger an alarm in the enemy camp and see what he does.

79 posted on 05/29/2012 12:56:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Arrowhead1952

Yea, he zotted real good!


80 posted on 05/29/2012 7:16:01 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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