They say that in the US on Sunday the thirty-eighth AFL-NFL Championship game will be played in American football. Those Russian units will be North of the Terek River by the time that game enters the fourth quarter or they will be in default.
Should that happen then Shamil Basayev will become a very well known figure in this world. A one-legged man carrying but a single suitcase may look like George C Scott in his pre-Patton days but Guy Owens would not mistake him for the Flim-Flam Man...
Then again a technical specialist might tell you that the majority of AFL-NFL Championship games had Quarterbacks from Alabama as the MVP... Technical is as technical does -- 2000 degrees and partly cloudy quite the dust storm...
Dry is good and wind is better...
Moroz:
Among others, there are two people who that can tell you a good deal about what happened at Rinas Airport per your query:
The Congressman (one of the legendary Handfull of America's Best) ran the airport for a bit during the war after he and his KDOM buddies decamped from the province. He was last seen in Sierra Leone doing that UN thing by day and his specialty by night. He is a bit reticent these days but having recently heard from the campaign of Mr D's old buddy at the University of North Carolina State, John Edwards, requesting dirt on Wesley Clark, he has shed some inhibitions about telling what he knows.
Expect more of these details to filter out if the General has to be taken down a few more pegs in the weeks to come. American election politics increasingly must become Balkanised so that all men (and women) can be free..
The second person is Mr D's old flag football buddy ABC News Washington Cameraman Fletcher Johnson. "Fletch" shot the NIGHTLINE footage of one of the "official" Apache losses going down at Rinas. Alas this footage has been sealed for "National Security" reasons for awhile now.
He is still a few years short of having 20 in and may he hesitant as a union employee to jeopardise his situation. Once he retires he may be willing to be more forthcoming about what he saw...
There are plenty more but this is a start if you really want to know what happened...
Wraith:
Excellent innings of late old man! Nothing like an LBW from a fast bowler...
Do you know the English writer David Cornwell (Le Carre)? In reviewing his latest work, Absolute Friends Mr D writes that the story's denouement brought back eery reminders of the Racak operation. He mentions the pre-operation planning had many similarities to the one in the book.
General Clark running for President probably represents the last clear chance people will have to uncover this hoax before it is relegated to the dustbin of history. People who don't know anything about Kosovo do know something is fundamentally flawed with Clark -- they are receptive to learning what they can about his "glorious" campaign.
John Edwards a very smart man for an old country lawyer from Raleigh, NC...
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.
Hay D, when you done with bong, refill it and pass it. Oh and call Tom Clancy, your fantasy sooo out of control...oh, Sunday you proved to be so full of shiete that you are....no one forget your little BS...but then again, all you is is little BS.
If the Congressman is who I think he is, last I heard, he was doing the OSCE thing in Liberia. His good buddy JPK doing the UN thing also in Liberia. (Those two work in tandem these days it seems.) So I guess I'm wrong about who the Congressman is :(
War under false pretense and whom does the bell toll for now? Do you remember when it all started? As of late a little deja vu to one that cost quite a bit. This time it was decided to send a friendly NVA gunboat.....
US frigate takes Stars and Stripes back to Vietnam By Alex Spillius, South East Asia Correspondent (Filed: 20/11/2003) Nearly 30 years after the United States fled its Saigon embassy in panic, an American warship flying the Vietnamese flag alongside the Stars and Stripes arrived yesterday in what is now Ho Chi Minh City. The Vandegrift, a guided missile frigate with a crew of more than 200, was escorted up the Saigon River by a Vietnamese patrol boat for the first such visit since the end of the war.