[nuconvert]

pong

[Dog]

I think the AQ leaderships fate was sealed in that January NSC meeting....they are in the crosshairs.

Bush will not leave them sitting there alive for the next President.

[AdmSmith]

I assume that Ashdown would be OK:

Paddy Asdon joined the Royal Marine Commandos in 1959, serving until 1972. He served in Borneo and the Persian Gulf before Special Forces training in 1965, after which he joined the elite Special Boat Service and commanded a Special Boat Section in the Far East. He then went to Hong Kong in 1967 to undertake a full-time interpreter’s course in Chinese, and returned to England in 1970 when he was given command of a Commando Company in Belfast.

After leaving the Marines, Ashdown worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as first secretary to the United Kingdom mission to the United Nations in Geneva. He was responsible for the UK’s relations with a several United Nations organisations and was also involved in the negotiation of several international treaties, and in some aspects of the European Security Conference (the Helsinki Conference). It has been speculated that this “cushy but dull” job was a cover for a role with MI6, but Ashdown has refused to comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown

[AFPhys]

Since this statement, there has been an angry Pakistani denial/ response.

I hope they aren’t serious about the truth of their denial.