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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Pathfinder on September 12, 2009, 01:02:11 PM
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OK, let me get this straight - Our DEA is executing military raids - with support from their own helicopter gunships - in Afghanistan? Is there anyone here who does not seriously think that the bho admin - or some other future admin - won't hesitate for a second to use this skillset and experience against home-grown terrorists clinging to their guns and Bibles?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549542,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549542,00.html)
"U.S. Forces Raid Afghan Drug Compound With Ties to Taliban
Saturday, September 12, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: FOX News has obtained new footage of a Drug Enforcement Adminstration Special Operations Raid on a drug compound in Afghanistan.
The money made from opium sales has proven ties to funding the Taliban. Oliver North, retired United States Marine Colonel and FOX News host, is traveling with members of the United States Military as they conduct the drug raids in Kandahar.
"It was a remarkable example of how quickly you can exploit really good intelligence," Col. North told FOX News from Kabul.
VIDEO: DEA drug raid in Afghanistan
The raid was conducted to "separate the Taliban from a source of financial support, the opium trade," North said.
U.S. Military forces are "going into the Taliban strongholds. What you're now seeing is taking the fight to the Taliban," North told FOX News.
The efforts in Afghanistan are being carried out at the same time that Pakistani forces are fighting to crush the Taliban in Pakistan's Waziristan region and tribal areas.
Video
"The big challenge continues to be training sufficient numbers of Afghans to take responsibility for their own future."
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And this worked soooooo well in Columbia, where we have totally kept the FARC away from cocaine revenue. ::) And in Nicaragua, and Vietnam, except there we turned a blind eye to and assisted the trafficers because they were on our side. You want to seperate the Taliban from the source of their revenue? It costs the price of one piece of paper, saves billions and no one gets killed who wasn't determined to die by their own hand anyway.
FQ13 Who is using that logic thing again, silly rabbitt
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Im soooo glad that soon if the creek dont rise and things work out Ill have a job with a Gov. contractor. I would rather be on the inside looking out than vice versa.
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Who is the main drug competitor that would benefit from the destruction of the drugs coming out of Afghanistan?
Mexico? Central or South America? Just wondering.
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Mexico is the second largest source of Heroin, might be #1 in the US market now.
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Mexico is the second largest source of Heroin, might be #1 in the US market now.
After good ol' "China White?" You might be right.
There were some landscapers of Mexican descent across the street, I'll ask them,...and than see if they want to buy that grenade launching, fully auto M-16 I bought at Bass Pro.... ;)
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Mexican Mud, Friend of mine when I was out in Ca had been in the Mexican Army, had a photo of him standing in the middle of a Poppy field. I asked if he was busting it or guarding it, he laughed and never did answer me.