"Monday: A man picks through the remains of an exploded car in northwestern Yemen."
You can run, but you can't hide. That's got to hurt.
Posted on 11/07/2002 10:43:00 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:58:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Al Qaeda's zealots never thought they would be fighting American robots
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He did, was tried in absentia for a plot to blow up the Amman, Jordan Ramada Hotel during the millenium. The evidence was overwhelming. We just delivered the sentance.
I have a friend in the military who does sat/photo/recon (He looks at pictures and does analysis.)
He did a stint with the Predator (got to sit next to the guy controling the drone and look at stuff realtime) and told me it is scary what you can do with it.
He told me that the bit about the technology in Clancy's Bear and the Dragon was just the exposed surface of the Iceberg.
Absurd. If he was with Al Qaeda then he was an enemy combatant, and he died in combat.
"Monday: A man picks through the remains of an exploded car in northwestern Yemen."
You can run, but you can't hide. That's got to hurt.
In addition to his U.S. trial in absentia, he was condemned to death in Jordan in February of this year for conspiring to commit terrorist attacks against American and Israeli tourists during the 2000 New Year celebrations. He was subsequently released on appeal.
Justice has a new face, necessary to our survival, in this war.
The car was a legitimate military target. Unlike the secretaries and janitors in the World Trade Center, who were the primary targets of hijacked airliners.
That makes us morally superior, and him "collateral damage". War is hell.
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