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| SAS and Delta on the hunt! |
| 2004-10-09 |
| Consider the source... but the puzzle pieces do fit: intercepts, Delta & SAS, etc An SAS hit team was last night hunting down the barbaric killers of Ken Bigley. The troops and America's crack Delta Force were ordered: "Nail the bastards" after Ken, 62, was beheaded in Iraq. They were closing in on the town of Latifiya, 22 miles south west of Baghdad, where Liverpool engineer Ken is thought to have been killed. Intelligence officers at Britain's GCHQ believe they have identified the area where butcher Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is holed up. Zarqawi is believed to have personally executed Ken and two Americans snatched with him last month. An SAS rescue unit has been on standby in Baghdad for a fortnight. Communications between the kidnappers and al-Qaeda sympathisers have been intercepted. Delta Force — America's counter-terrorist equivalent of the SAS — are leading the operation which has already swooped on 70 members of Zarqawi's group. |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #30 Frank, I was thinking more along the lines of a barbecue fork... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-10-10 12:01:16 AM |
| #29 OS: and a dull, rusty knife? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-09 10:55:30 PM |
| #28 You're a bit over the top. I'd say just hand Zarqawi over to the families of his victims. After we've extracted all the intel we can from him, and the Iraqi intel service has done the same. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-10-09 10:50:13 PM |
| #27 Zarqawi could give a rat's a** about politics, his demeaner is more directly compared to Adolf Hitler & Jack The Ripper! When caught, kill him; if found dead, kill him again!! Torture him by putting both eys out, cutting his tongue off, and removing his testicles. Place his body in the center of Fallujah dropped from a Cobra at 500 feet! |
| Posted by: smn 2004-10-09 10:16:50 PM |
| #26 Yup! |
| Posted by: John QC 2004-10-09 10:04:42 PM |
| #25 John QC, What happened? Are too lazy to spell "Citizen" |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-10-09 9:55:41 PM |
| #24 Feel the same way Edward Yee. I switched to decaf but I still want to Kill....kill....kill...killKilll.kill... |
| Posted by: John QC 2004-10-09 9:36:07 PM |
| #23 How about this for a slogan: Kill ... kill ... kill ... killKillKiLlKILL!!!! |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-10-09 9:33:24 PM |
| #22 Hey, we deserve to see the chain saw event free on Fox. It should be available in all places where their citizens have had to deal with the bastard Zarq. I would pay if necessary. |
| Posted by: John QC 2004-10-09 9:02:57 PM |
| #21 Bullet in the head is to easy. Saw his head off on pay per-view. |
| Posted by: incarnate of lee atwater 2004-10-09 8:42:32 PM |
| #20 I'm generally against killing people 'less they really need killing. However, in these circumstances, by their barbarous acts, Zarq and his pals have sacrificed all rights to participate in civilized society. I have absolutely NO PROBLEM with hunting them down like rats at the dump and giving them a bullet to the head. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-10-09 8:15:33 PM |
| #19 This is refreshing to learn. It means where there is one hunter/killer team there must be others. Basically, if these butchers want to use chain saws on people they had better keep looking over their shoulders because our guys are coming for them. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-10-09 5:54:47 PM |
| #18 What is this Speed Racer you speak of? |
| Posted by: G G Gophers 2004-10-09 5:39:38 PM |
| #17 thought you were gonna do a "Speed Racer" thing there, Mark |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-09 4:43:29 PM |
| #16 go, go, go, task force 626! |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2004-10-09 4:39:18 PM |
| #15 Isn't Zarqawi a cripple? Thought he originally came to Iraq for an operation (amputated his foot?). Shouldn't be too hard to find him, now that we've isolated his whereabouts to one region. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-09 4:05:47 PM |
| #14 Good. Nail these bastards. I do hope they take them alive for more intel (then ice them), but I would be very pleased to hear that they have all nice holes in their kneecaps and that the remainder of their short lives will be full of pain. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2004-10-09 4:03:24 PM |
| #13 Moon Unit Zappa? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-09 3:54:45 PM |
| #12 Sun Myung Moon? |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-10-09 3:25:50 PM |
| #11 Which Moon? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-09 3:15:32 PM |
| #10 "Nail the bastards", while not as poetic, reminds me of a few other expressions. "Cut down their groves and vineyards and plow their fields with salt." "Kill them all, for the Lord shall know his own." "Go forth and kill, my children. Kill for Kali." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-10-09 2:16:02 PM |
| #9 That is very Zen. We could shorten to just "Kill Z?" |
| Posted by: John (Q. Citizen) 2004-10-09 1:09:38 PM |
| #8 Short version: Think Arnold Schwartzenegger in "Predator". ;o) |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-10-09 1:03:58 PM |
| #7 OS. Thanks for the response. I don't have a problem with looking at things around the moon. On the Zen of single-minded purpose: "Even if the sun were to rise from the West, the Bhodhisattva has only one way." Looking forward to this as it unfolds...i.e. Delta/SAS having singlemindness of purpose. I had some experience with teaching but PC drove me nuts--lala land, Alice in Goofy Land. There are a lot of loonies in academia--almost as bad as the MSM--moonbats as they say here. |
| Posted by: John (Q. Citizen) 2004-10-09 12:54:37 PM |
| #6 To elaborate a bit (using me as a retired astronomer who specializes in the moon, and a full moon as an exmaple): If the moon is out and someone online posts an article about it being a full moon, I can then point a finger at the moon for you guys to show you where it is, I can even say "Its pretty bright for being night time" as long as I dont both point and remark about the light. I can even sometimes point out astronomy books (as long as I dont point out specific sections). But I cannot do much else when it comes to the moon. Now, I can remark about distant galaxies that I never studied while I was a professional astronomer, and give my reasoned opinions. I can talk about nearby stars and tacitly use my experience with moon based theories to draw conclusions, as long as I keep it away from the methods anmd sources I used in my reasoning. But I have to stay away from being too specific or definitive about the moon. So, thats why I leave things hanging sometimes. And I also check things with friends, which can led to me asking for a post of mine to be removed (and that has happned precisely 1 time). Don't worry that I'm leaking classified info - I dont have direct access to any of that, and if I did, I would not risk posting any of it here (I respect the guys in the field too much to risk them by posting to a blog). SO you get my best opinion and extrapolation based on my experience in reading between the lines. So, like the old Zen koan warns, dont mistake the finger pointing at the moon, for the moon itself. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-10-09 12:38:43 PM |
| #5 OS. Respect that. |
| Posted by: John (Q. Citizen) 2004-10-09 12:27:49 PM |
| #4 John Q. there are some things that I simply cannot talk about here. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-10-09 12:24:47 PM |
| #3 Good luck boyz! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-09 12:23:52 PM |
| #2 OS. Does this mean that GCHQ is picking up electronic communications from Latifiya.? Killing or capture of Zarqawi would most likely guarantee W's re-election. There must be some Iraqi that is sympathetic to rolling on him that knows where he is. $25 million is a fair incentive. Let's hope Delta/SAS has good hunting. |
| Posted by: John (Q. Citizen) 2004-10-09 12:23:48 PM |
| #1 FYI: GCHQ is Britain's "NSA", the SIGINT agency for the nation. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-10-09 12:13:58 PM |