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When Things go Terribly Wrong
Coach is Right ^ | 16 Oct 2010 | Jim Emerson

Posted on 10/16/2010 9:22:08 AM PDT by darkwing104

The death of Linda Norgrove was a tragedy that happened when something goes wrong in military rescue operation. Ms. Norgrove, a Scottish aid worker, was kidnapped by members of the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan on September 26 with three Afghan co-workers. The Afghanis were later released.

Intelligence sources learned the Taliban took Ms. Norgrove to a stronghold in the mountains of northern Kunar region. Using a network of eavesdropping and informants the Taliban kidnappers were being tracked and all actions were being monitored by overhead drones. In the intelligence community the information on the location of Ms. Norgrove was solid. According to the Washington Post, the British military were provided intelligence on her whereabouts.

Other reports stated the reason for Norgrove’s kidnapping was that she was a bargaining chip to be exchanged for Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui aka “Lady al-Qaeda” who is presently in a US prison.

Other reports stated the reason for Norgrove’s kidnapping was that she was a bargaining chip to be exchanged for Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui aka “Lady al-Qaeda” who is presently in a US prison.

The decision to send in the Navy SEALs to rescue Ms. Norgrove was motivated by informants reveling that either she was going to be moved to the North Waziristan territory in Pakistan or that she was to be publicly executed.

(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; lindanorgrove; seals
I would be a real tragedy If we allow this incident to diminish the effectiveness of the Special Forces.


1 posted on 10/16/2010 9:22:13 AM PDT by darkwing104
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To: darkwing104

This is a chance she took going among the Animals,the brave special forces who put their lives on the line for a dogooder who should have found something at home to work on!


2 posted on 10/16/2010 9:25:48 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: darkwing104

The Pakistanis are desperate to get their biological weapons maker back. But no illusions. She is as dangerous as Khan, the nuclear weapons proliferator, who the Pakistanis revere and protect.

Put on the spot, about the only way to resolve this problem is for her to die, at least officially. Otherwise the Pakistanis will do anything for her return, which means a perpetual threat against any US citizen overseas.

That this is done by proxy, the Taliban, changes nothing. This is the work of the Pakistani government and the ISI.

It also means that any other Pakistani national who is studying what she had been studying has to be seen as a security risk. Because it indicates that the Pakistani government wants to proliferate biological weapons.


3 posted on 10/16/2010 9:35:19 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: darkwing104

Dear author:

Blame the bad guys for a change. Try hard.


4 posted on 10/16/2010 9:42:28 AM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
They fortify their borders like anyone else. Chi-russo involvement should make a kid building a sandcastle go away.
5 posted on 10/16/2010 9:44:20 AM PDT by allmost
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To: darkwing104

A well-meaning person goes into a hell hole to try to help savages. Savages don’t recognize a normal person and capture normal person. World reels in wonder at the treatment given to a person who is trying to help savages. Savages yell and scream through their dirty beards. World apologizes to savages.


6 posted on 10/16/2010 9:57:15 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: darkwing104
Attention "Aid Workers":

Let the Muslim cannibals help themselves.

If you get captured by them, you're on your own.

The only aid we should be giving to Muslim countries is a constant exhortation for them to commit mass suicide, and failing that, to stand together in tightly-packed formation at pre-determined GPS coordinates, so that we can send them on express elevators to Allah.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

7 posted on 10/16/2010 10:21:41 AM PDT by The Comedian (They Live. We Sleep.)
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To: DPMD

Did you read the whole piece?


8 posted on 10/16/2010 10:55:50 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: The Comedian
Vacation IN beautiful TalibanAl Qaedastan See the beautiful holes where the buddhas once stood, stand on the land where once ten aid workers were murdered for trying to help the indigenous people, get absolutely lost in Korengal Valley where Winston Churchill excited thousands of Europens folks( to stay home) as his military men screamed while the women carved his soldiers just outside the camps in this barren hostile but VIRGIN land.

Yes, and for all you NAMBLA and bestial folks try Fridays in Kandahar with a bacha Bazi boy, or the neigbhors goat, heavens a hole is a hole you know. View the breathtaking borders and meet your own Pashtun jailer, feel his dull sword before it slices into your throat. Afghanistan is more worthy than hiking mountain trails near or in the borders of Iran.

If you're Jewish get a thrill running the fastest marathon of your life before ending up like Daniel Pearl( but that was Pakistan, no problems here*lie*).See the innovative womens schools and visit the girls who had acid poured upon their faces. Afghanistan, where the real dumb a*sed folks go then pray they're rescued by the kindly SAS, SEALs marine scouts or a real live airborne ranger, maybe even a Green Beret squad NO CHARGE!.

Feel the thrills now, C-140's take off on the hour and dive quickly through small arms fire and the occasional RPG or maybe catch a ride with one of the cool gasoline trucks, or brave it hiking off trail in IEDISTAN...yes, it's all yours, safe as a rabid dog pack that smells fresh meat. Forget finding Wally, collect $25 million and go one a treasure hunt looking for Osama with a real army issue map and a compass. You'll love this hellhole.

9 posted on 10/16/2010 10:59:20 AM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: darkwing104

Repelled.
Rapelled.
Not the same thing at all.


10 posted on 10/16/2010 4:38:41 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Karliner


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

11 posted on 10/17/2010 6:12:11 AM PDT by The Comedian (They Live. We Sleep.)
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To: The Comedian
Way ahead of me. Now to grab wallspace at UC Berkeley( Take out a full page ad in the Berkeley Barb) Humboldt State, UC Santa Cruz,Oregon schools, UC Santa Barbara, Colorado Party Schools, hell, may as well hit the ivy league schools. Maybe we can wile enough commies away they'll storm the cities, full of tolerant folks, gays, NOW, commies,ransgenders, marxists to scare the Taliban into sibmission. I can hear it now:

'Taliban leader," Oh nooooo... we's surrenders just get your clazy people from smoking all out profits!" and who's the Jew with the circumcision chain stores. We no likey this Gris stuff, give us back our goats and H2SO4!"

12 posted on 10/17/2010 7:21:48 AM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Just one more example of Muslim ROT (religion of terror) that must be eradicated by strong men.


13 posted on 10/17/2010 7:26:15 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: DPMD

Concur.


14 posted on 10/24/2010 11:43:02 AM PDT by Passionate_about_USA
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To: darkwing104

I’m confident they will not allow their effectiveness to be diminished.


15 posted on 10/24/2010 11:48:01 AM PDT by Passionate_about_USA
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To: darkwing104

“Both videos are reported to show a SEAL throwing a grenade towards the corner of a building where the aid worker was being held. It is not known the SEAL knew that Ms. Norgrove was there. At this time it is not totally clear on the cause of her death, just speculation and unnamed sources.”

Brilliant, Coach. Pulitzer prize stuff.


16 posted on 10/24/2010 12:00:50 PM PDT by Passionate_about_USA
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