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US homes in on militants in Pakistan (US base just across the border now operational)
Asia Times ^ | 01/30/08 | Syed Saleem Shahzad

Posted on 01/29/2008 5:52:21 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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To: blam
Didn’t know it’s that bad.:-)
21 posted on 01/29/2008 6:56:53 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Apparently I was mistaken. “Home in on” is actually okay. The grammar police (including me) apparently were a little too quick to pounce!


22 posted on 01/29/2008 7:06:13 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

IIRC, in all the spy-themed tv shows I watched when I was a kid, when they wanted to track somebody they would attach a “homing device” to their car.


23 posted on 01/29/2008 7:35:10 AM PST by printhead
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

All your base are belong to us.


24 posted on 01/29/2008 8:00:46 AM PST by rsflynn (Cigars, cigarettes, carbon offsets?)
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To: blam

Blam, your threads rock!


25 posted on 01/29/2008 9:42:24 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Thanks.
26 posted on 01/29/2008 10:05:51 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Map of area from previous AT story:


27 posted on 01/29/2008 10:08:49 AM PST by angkor (A conservative without hyphens, qualifiers, or a political party.)
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To: Constitution Day

More on the “hone” vs. “home”:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000378.html


28 posted on 01/29/2008 11:17:47 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: USMCPOP

Very interesting! I’ll check that out further tonight. Thanks!


29 posted on 01/29/2008 11:43:58 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

There are homing pigeons, but no “honing” pigeons.


30 posted on 01/29/2008 11:46:28 AM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: voletti; GOPJ; Tigen; AliVeritas; Grimmy; gonzo; DeaconBenjamin; indcons; sukhoi-30mki; ...

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

FReepmail if you want on or off

31 posted on 01/29/2008 3:59:03 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: blam

A homing pidgeon ‘homes’ in doesn’t he?

Actually the correct term is “ homs “ in.


32 posted on 01/29/2008 4:06:10 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
Would they be foreclosed homes?

I guess this will solve the mortgage meltdown.

33 posted on 01/29/2008 8:49:36 PM PST by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Chgogal; DevSix; Steel Wolf; Squantos

Does this base have a name?


34 posted on 01/31/2008 6:32:11 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
I don’t know, I imagine so. Just the building of it really ticked off the terrorists!

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IG17Df03.html

BTW, I pinged you to the “other” later post, same article.

35 posted on 01/31/2008 6:38:42 PM PST by Chgogal (When you vote Democrat, you vote Al Qaeda! Ari Emanuel, Rahm's brother was agent to Moore's F9/11.)
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