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I'm with Curt, seems to me all we did was make a martyr out of him. The bigger we make the prize the more glory he gets from the rest of the cave men. There's a thousand of them just waiting to take his place and the highest honor he'll get will be us saying his name.
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"Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.
don"
Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Nothing to be concerned about a mere austere Islamic scholar according to the inimitable WaPo.
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I notice him pictured with a 30 round religious artifact behind him...Originally Posted by wacojoe
Nothing to be concerned about a mere austere Islamic scholar according to the inimitable WaPo.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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This from this morning's Daily Briefing in the NYT:
Previously I had read the "source" was one of his wivesISIS leader was betrayed by one of his own
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, spent his last months hiding in a part of northern Syria dominated by rival jihadist groups. And he was paying one of those groups protection money — at least $67,000, receipts show.
The rival group kept his secret, but Mr. al-Baghdadi was betrayed by one of the few people he trusted, two American officials said, leading to his death in a Special Forces raid.
Background: The informer’s identity remains a secret. But one individual with knowledge of the events described him as “a very, very close, trusted confidant” of the ISIS leader.
The details: Six other people were killed in the compound, the Pentagon said, in addition to Mr. al-Baghdadi and the children he took with him when he detonated a suicide vest. American forces recovered laptops, cellphones and thumb drives that could provide a window into the organization.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Previously I had read the "source" was one of his wivesIt still might be one of his "wives"...Maybe he went both ways...The informer’s identity remains a secret. But one individual with knowledge of the events described him as “a very, very close, trusted confidant” of the ISIS leader....Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Maybe there was more than one. $50 million bounty is quite attractive.
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Regarding the obit reported to be in the WP---Joe has that one right---there was a long condemning OPED in the WSJ about that. You have to wonder where someones head was who wrote that---and it made it into the paper.
The article in the WSJ stated that it immediately came under criticism and was taken down quickly.
I did not see any similar insult in the NYT.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I think Homeland Security should pay them a visit to determine the source of the obit and then have a "chat" with the source.
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And the next target is......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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It now appears that one of the cowardly terrorist's wives along with other family members have been captured by the Turks...Islamic State spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, considered a potential successor to Baghdadi, was himself killed in northwestern Syria in a separate attack by U.S. forces, a senior State Department official confirmed to Fox News last week....Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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I doubt the Turks have a huge number of liberal lawyers just waiting to raise hell about a little waterboarding..
I'm not sure she is going to like what happens next.
Individual rights are protected only as long as they don't conflict with the desires of the state .
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The making of Conan......Ben
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Good article! Thanks, Ben.
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