War is Just a Racket

joeallonby vze422fs at verizon.net
Mon Jun 14 00:36:16 CDT 2004


Preaching to the choir.

on 6/13/04 10:38 PM, R. Fiero at rfiero at pophost.com wrote:

> 
> --Counterpunch--
> Trained in Saigon, outfitted with captured enemy equipment,
> then given a "one-way ticket to Cambodia," they were sent to
> locate enemy sanctuaries. When they radioed back their position
> and that of the sanctuary, the CIA would bomb them along with the target.
> ==========
> --NY Times--
> One possibility, a senior intelligence official and a senior
> military officer said, is that Mr. Hussein was above ground in
> one of the houses that were not destroyed in the raid.
> In the raid, the Air Force primarily used deep-penetrating
> munitions because of their ability to destroy an underground
> bunker. The person who was the primary source of the
> information about the bunker was killed in the raid, according
> to intelligence officials, but had described it using an Arabic
> word, manzul, that could have been translated either as place
> of refuge or as bunker.
> 

 





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