[2banana]

James noted that at Zhawar Kili, special operators found craters outside the entrance to a mountain cave and scorch marks from U.S. cruise missiles launched in 1998 by President Clinton against Osama bin Laden, but the insides of the caves were untouched.

Pretty well sums up Clinton's efforts on combating terrorsim...

[Ditto]

Good article, but a question. What's with this"

Commodore Robert S. Harward

I didn't know the Navy still had that rank.

[Cicero]

James noted that at Zhawar Kili, special operators found craters outside the entrance to a mountain cave and scorch marks from U.S. cruise missiles launched in 1998 by President Clinton against Osama bin Laden, but the insides of the caves were untouched.

No comment.

[harpseal]

FYI

[PLK]

In Harward, K-Bar had a well-traveled commander who learned fluent Farsi in his youth in Tehran, Iran, where his father worked in the U.S. embassy. During a summer off from high school, he had hitchhiked through Afghanistan

Harward, a rock-ribbed 46-year-old with deep-set blue eyes

There were allegations that we shot people in their sleep, that we assassinated people," said Harward, who dismisses such claims. "If we want to assassinate someone, we just put two bullets in their head."

I think I'm in love.

[Billthedrill]

K-Bar -- named for a military knife used by SEALs...

< Pedantic mode = ON > The K-Bar was a USMC implement of destruction, issued in WWII and Korea and discontinued afterward. The SEALS use a number of different knives, but the K-Bar itself was only recently put back into limited production after a hiatus of some years. The big complaint against the K-Bar was that its severely clipped tip, while useful for opening C-ration cans, was somewhat delicate for a killing instrument, and caused a curvature that put the tip off the center of thrust. Most old Marines I know would rather be caught without their pants than without their trusty K-Bar... < pedantic mode = OFF >

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"In a first, K-Bar's troops worked hand-in-hand with FBI agents who were brought in to help determine which prisoners should be let go and which were "keepers" headed for further interrogation, Harward said."

FBI this, FBI that. A friend of mine who is a US Customs special agent has spent a lot of time in Afghanistan and Guantanamo (and elsewhere) in the past year or so for the purpose of tracking terrorist financial networks. I wonder which Madison Avenue PR firm has the FBI contract??