Osama bin Laden's American legacy

[Tinker]

[Ibrahim]

Quite possibly. If so, look for South Korea to conquer the world.



Though another cynical part of me says you should always bet on the Viet Cong or Pahtun hillman who can live in a cave for years and fight for days on a cup of tea and a bowl of rice (both cold). Crafty like you can't imagine and cheaper to produce per-unit.

[Demon of Undoing]

[Demon of Undoing]

Ah , screwit. Read the link. We're boned- er.



http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-secur ... ldwide-war

[Tinker]

[Tinker]

[Demon of Undoing]

[Tinker]

[Demon of Undoing]

Yeah , well , I'd just like to say that if I were transported back to Mideaval Europe , I would form an insurgency of outlaws , deserted soldiers , Gypsies and Jews. Fuck yer fief , bitchez.

[noddy]

you would think they could have changed the plot slightly from 1984, its almost absurd!

first politician to use oceania/eurasia and im outta here.

[Tinker]

[amos]

[skyhook77sfg]

TINKER

get yourself a machete...

most practical, multi use edged weapon

and survival tool there is.

under $10 at walmart.

[Ibrahim]

[Ibrahim]

[Demon of Undoing]

[skyhook77sfg]

OBL's HIDDEN LEGACY



U.S. Special Operations Forces continue to experience rapid post-9/11 growth, with swelling ranks, rising budgets and a new set of missions. Special operations forces were reportedly involved along with CIA personnel in the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1.

“Special operations” are defined (pdf) as military operations that are “conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to achieve military, diplomatic, informational, and/or economic objectives employing military capabilities for which there is no broad conventional force requirement. These operations often require covert, clandestine, or low visibility capabilities…. Special operations differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets.”

Special Operations Forces operate “from the tropics to the Arctic regions, from under water to high elevations, and from peaceful areas to violent combat zones,” said Adm. Eric T. Olson, the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

“Although the precision counterterrorism missions certainly receive the most attention,” he told Congress in the 2011 SOCOM posture statement, “SOF are conducting a wide range of activities in dozens of countries around the world on any given day.”

“On an average day, in excess of 12,000 Special Operations Forces (SOF) and SOF support personnel are deployed in more than 75 countries across the globe,” he said last year (pdf).

The number of special operations personnel has grown 3-5% each year for the last several years and is now approaching 60,000, about one-third of whom are qualified SOF operators.

Meanwhile, the SOCOM budget has increased sharply since 9/11 from $2.1 billion in 2001 to $9.8 billion in FY2011. The FY2012 request is $10.5 billion, the Congressional Research Service noted (pdf).

New doctrine published last month for Special Operations lists 11 “core activities” versus 9 in the previous edition (2003), reflecting the addition of “security force assistance” — aiding the development of foreign security forces — and counterinsurgency. See “Special Operations,” Joint Publication 3-05, April 18, 2011.

In addition to its core tasks, US SOCOM is also assigned by law (10 USC 167j) to perform “such other activities as may be specified by the President or the Secretary of Defense.” This is an open-ended category that is analogous to the statutory language used to authorize CIA covert actions, and it can be used to underwrite an almost unlimited variety of clandestine missions. But while there is a well-defined mechanism for congressional oversight of covert action, no similar process for congressional notification and review appears to exist for clandestine SOF missions.


READ THAT LAST PARAGRAPH AGAIN SLOWLY....

now someone the likes of Feldmarschall von Rumsfeld or UeberSpook Gates has highly trained personal professional personnel to surveil, capture, imprison, kill, blow up, down, sink or disappear whomever, whatever, where ever he wants without answering to anyone anywhere anytime.....

and its enshrined in US law by our very finest officers of the court.

shame on all you esquires of this ill legal system.

shame.

[Demon of Undoing]

You know , I never noticed the lack of oversight provisions. I was just thinking we were ignoring the relevant laws like we always have. They actually got the whole shebang greenlighted.

Well played , Mr Obrien.

[skyhook77sfg]

note there is no prohibition against CONUS missions ordered by SecDef or POTUS...

could make Watergate seem like a harmless little prank

and Waco a study in federal patience and forbearance.

[Demon of Undoing]

[Demon of Undoing]

[skyhook77sfg]

4 MORE YEARS


Top congressional leaders agreed Thursday to a four-year extension of the anti-terrorist Patriot Act, the controversial law passed after the Sept. 11 attacks that governs the search for terrorists on American soil. The deal between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner calls for a vote before May 27, when parts of the current act expire. The idea is to pass the extension with as little debate as possible to avoid a protracted and familiar argument over the expanded power the law gives to the government.


LIKE THE ARCH SEGREGATIONIST ONCE SAID;

THERE AINT A DIMES WORTH OF DIFFERENCE

REPUBLOCRATS HAVE NO REGARD

FOR THE REPUBLIC OR DEMOCRACY


ANAL RETENTIVE MAMMONITES

NOW RUN THE SHOW.....

WILL BE FIRST TO GO.

[AzariLoveIran]

[skyhook77sfg]

true...

and anti american

and anti freedom

and anti constitution


imortant step toward fascism

fear wrapped in american flag

and promoted from pulpits