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| U.S. troops to join 'exercise' against Abu Sayyaf |
| 2002-07-02 |
| U.S. troops involved in a counterterrorism training exercise in the southern Philippines will soon be deployed closer to the front where the Philippine military is battling the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf, a U.S. spokeswoman said Tuesday. "We have received the order that allows us and grants the permission to do so by our government and (the Philippine) government," said Maj. Cynthia Teramae, spokeswoman for the U.S. troops participating in the joint military exercise. The American advisers are prohibited from engaging in combat and are currently confined to battalion headquarters. The new order will allow them to join smaller company units nearer to the front lines, raising concerns they could be exposed to greater danger and clashes. Not too sure how good an idea this is... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 It's pretty much a ruse, innit, Fred, to get around the Flips' constitutional proscription against foreign troops? The loophole is that US troops can "train," and they can "fight defensively" if attacked. Of course, if you drop a bunch of US "trainers" right in the middle of a bunch of nasty Flip Islamofascists, you surely can't stop them from "fighting defensively" until all those terr guys are snakebait, canya? |
| Posted by: Bill Quick 2002-07-02 19:57:19 |
| #2 I've been thinking of starting a Dead Guys list, just to look it over now and then to gloat. I'd do all the entries in By the way, back in December the Hindustan Times reported that a fellow namedZain Al-Abedin Hasan, a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, had been named as Binny's successor. Like all good terrorists, he goes under a pseudonym: Abu Zubaydah. Heh heh. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-07-02 19:31:57 |
| #1 SF teams regularly train, evaluate & accompany untis down to squad/platoon level, especially recon elements. It is the only way to get the training job done. This article sounds more like "forgiveness" than "persmission", i.e this has got to have been going on all along, and now they are doing a bit of CYA. BTW, notice how many terrs have been buying the farm recently? |
| Posted by: Emery S. Almasy 2002-07-02 15:24:36 |