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2011-06-16 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 The US ... announced ... that it is building a "secret" CIA air base.

Sounds like someone flunked SPOOK101.

Posted by crosspatch 2011-06-16 04:12|| 2011-06-16 04:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Or they want to keep 'em guessing and expending resources (plus expose themselves) trying to find it.

That's what an 'old school' spook might do. Don't know about this 'new spook learning', though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2011-06-16 08:25|| 2011-06-16 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 [warbles in a Judy Garland-ish way]

Somewhere ... on the horizon
We're here too.
And the targets we watch quite likely will include you.

Posted by lotp 2011-06-16 13:38|| 2011-06-16 13:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Mastrovia (SP?)
what a concept!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2011-06-16 14:38|| 2011-06-16 14:38|| Front Page Top

#5 The NYT already revealed that the "secret base" is on the island of Socotra. (Thereby proving the Al Jazeera is less treacherous than the NYT )

Posted by Frozen Al 2011-06-16 15:33|| 2011-06-16 15:33|| Front Page Top

#6 "Is that the CIA base?"

"No, it has a golf course. Must be a USAF base."

"How about that one?"

"Nope, we're in a desert in summer. They're up to their waist in mud. Must be SOCOM."

"This one?"

"Nah, it has a Pizza Hut, a Burger King, and a Taco Bell. Must be an Army Support Command."

"All that's left is the filthy casbah and the discount brothels, next to that fly ridden abattoir."

"That's the CIA base."

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-06-16 16:52|| 2011-06-16 16:52|| Front Page Top

#7 CIA? Doesn't Defense Intel do that stuff?

Posted by Woozle Gonque5481 2011-06-16 19:23|| 2011-06-16 19:23|| Front Page Top

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