Posted on 06/11/2006 5:41:54 PM PDT by jimbo123
The dinner party had gathered last Wednesday evening in a farmhouse in the fertile, fruit-growing countryside just outside Baqubah, 30 miles north of Baghdad. One of the attendees was Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. With him were at least three women and three men, including Sheik Abdul-Rahman, al-Zarqawi's so-called spiritual adviser and confidant. Also in the house was one of al-Zarqawi's most trusted couriers, an aide tasked with relaying messages from the commander to militants in the field. What al-Zarqawi could not have known was that U.S. and Jordanian intelligence officials had been tracking the movements of Abdul-Rahman and the courier--whom Jordanian intelligence refers to as Mr. X--for weeks. Fewer than half a dozen members of a U.S. reconnaissance and surveillance team from Delta Force hid in a grove of date and palm trees, watching the building. After years of hunting, they finally had the prey in their sights.
But almost as soon as they took up position, the commandos feared they were about to lose him. A special-operations source tells TIME that the surveillance team was worried that there wasn't enough time to assemble a ground assault force to raid the house and capture al-Zarqawi; the commandos at the site lacked sufficient manpower and weaponry to attack on their own. As dusk neared, the team fretted al-Zarqawi might slip away if they waited too long. A knowledgeable Pentagon official says the Delta team "saw one group come into the house and one group exit." Al-Zarqawi was not in the departing group, but the commandos were afraid he might be in the next one. The recon unit's leader radioed his superiors to request an air strike.
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I don't know any 40 year olds that have a 16 year old spouse. I hear about it in the news every now and then when they give interviews from jail.
Oh, not -ALL-... we don't have a monopoly on perversion as regards marrying below our generation. There's folks in Utah and parts of the South that can put NorthEastern pervs to shame in that regard. Note: all perfectly legally, mind you.
> I don't know any 40 year olds that have a 16 year old spouse. I hear about it in the news every now and then when they give interviews from jail.
I'm not saying it's a good thing -- in fact I argued against it in my original comment. I'm only saying, American laws specifically permit it, many at ages below 16, and with no upper limit on the older person.
"I believe the original reports from a few days ago mentioned an 8 year old girl was also in the group. That 8 year old was probably his favorite."
... I believe it mentioned a goat was nearby, and I heard from someone there was a possibility that Paris Hilton might have flown on one of the last remaining SR-71's to visit with him last weekend and is having his love child ...
Sheech ... this bastard cuts off someones head on TV and this thread obseses about possible sex with a 16 year old female that would be legal in most of the States in the US ?
... I believe it mentioned a goat was nearby, and I heard from someone there was a possibility that Paris Hilton might have flown on one of the last remaining SR-71's to visit with him last weekend and is having his love child ...
Sheech ... this bastard cuts off someones head on TV and this thread obsesses about possible sex with a 16 year old female that would be legal in most of the States in the US ?
ROTFLMAO (and yeah, you're right about the priorities)
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