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Posted on 08/07/2006 10:33:58 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Thanks!
FBI: Approach Missing Egyptians with Caution
An FBI advisory says there are, at present, no known connections to any terrorist group but that the students are to be "approached with caution" and taken into custody.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/fbi_approach_mi.html
I THOUGHT THE FBI INDICATED THEY WERE NOT A THREAT!!!!
My daughter and I plan to see it together, just like we did United 93. With tissues.
Yea, you might need the tissues
The govt screwed up yet again....
we don't even have pictures, who do we know who to approach "with caution".
Hi, Allegra. You're probably sleeping by now (hope so). I'm just on lunch break myself. Anyway, thanks for the reply. I pretty much figured it was all "political" but still... I'll follow up this evening or maybe I'll skip over to tomorrow's thread.
I'm sure they are just following "procedure".
Too late. They have already entered a beehive IMHO. We are so soft. Bush should end all visas to people from Islamic countries. Mueller is like a modern day Betty Crocker.
which procedure, the "enable 9-11 attack" procedure or the "public is basically dumb" procedure?
He had his own games going on, most, but not all, honorable.
I disagree. Ahmad Shah Masood was a far better ally in that region than others upon whom the CIA stupidly and stubbornly lavished the greater portion of their aid. For example, the CIA insisted on giving millions in money and weapons to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, even though they were warned repeatedly that he was virulently anti-Western and ant-American. He publicly told his followers that when they had finished with the Russians they would turn the West's weapons against them.
Masood, in contrast, was Western-educated and generally pro-Western, within the inherent limitations necessary to operate effectively in that part of the world. A certain amount of duplicity and "corruption" is necessary to both be effective and to remain alive in that milieu.
The example of the "half a mill" CIA payment he "reneged" on is true, but it's also trivial when compared to the millions in cash and arms Hekmatyar accepted from the CIA for use against the Russians. It was also stipulated that he share them with his fellow mujaheddin freedom fighters, including Dostum and Masood, but instead he used those same weapons to attack them.
The duplicity and unreliability of the CIA towards Masood, Dostum and the other Afghan muj leaders in favor of Hekmatyar during those years gave them ample reason to repay them in kind. The subsequent actions of Hekmatyar since that time through the present continue to demonstrate the consequences of CIA incompetence during that period. He is a major leader of the Afghan terrorist resistance. Our troops in Afghanistan are being killed by his forces right now, and we are expending significant resources trying to nail him.
Both Masood and Dostum urged the CIA to kill Hekmatyar in the '80s. The CIA should have listened. America lost a friend and a valuable ally in Masood. If he were not, Al Quaida would not have thought it necessary to kill him just before the 9/11 attack.
I agree completely with you about Dostum, however. He has gotten a bum deal.
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we don't even have pictures, who do we know who to approach "with caution".
Good point.
I am afraid the "interesting" may end up being an understatment...literally "afraid".
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