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April 27, 2005
Don’t Spit in My Ear and Then Tell Me Its Raining
A news story from Iraq details how the US Army’s elite Delta Force barely missed capturing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the top Al Qaeda-linked terrorist in Iraq. However, they have perhaps snagged the next best thing: his laptop.
If you can’t capture or kill a major terrorist figure then capturing his laptop is the next best thing, eh? It has pictures of him and his kids! In the glory days of spycraft during the Cold War the Mossad, KGB, MI-6, or the CIA would have dispatched this goon a long time ago. Today, the operational experts at CIA HQ can only brag about capturing his laptop. Any info on it is prolly either obsolete, or more likely, intended to be captured.
What in the hell does it say about the CIA and the $7.7 billion a year the USG spends on “intelligence” that when they capture a bad guy’s laptop it counts as a “major intelligence score”? Even with a $25 million price on his head (and double that amount on Osama,) they still can’t get anyone to rat him out?
It tells me that whatever motivates these people has a higher value to them than the considerable reward money being offered.
Posted by Ali Massoud at April 27, 2005 10:15 PM
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