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2007-01-14 Africa Horn

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They not only gave them money and technical support but even spare parts where needed,

A logical act, pointed out by a Rantburger some weeks back.

Posted by Pappy 2007-01-14 00:10|| 2007-01-14 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope they don't capture any of them....

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-01-14 00:14|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-01-14 00:14|| Front Page Top

#3 American mercenaries. The Pentagon finally figured out that mercenaries are worth their weight in gold.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-14 00:20|| 2007-01-14 00:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I very much doubt capture is in the vocabulary of the SAS teams.

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#5 Excuse me, but can I just mention how ~~disposable~~ cheap mercenaries are? They're the next best thing to proxies.

I wonder if any of them would like to visit Sadr city.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-14 00:28|| 2007-01-14 00:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Umm, let's make clear the SAS aren't mercenaries, ours or anyone else's. The SAS are some of the finest soldiers in the world.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-01-14 01:24|| 2007-01-14 01:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Who Dares Wins

Posted by Besoeker 2007-01-14 02:16|| 2007-01-14 02:16|| Front Page Top

#8 One huge advantage we now have in this area of spares supply is that half of NATO is former Warsaw Pact. Makes supplying MiG, T-55, Hind, Sukhoi, and related equipment with spares very simple : just hand over some cash to one of the Eastern Bloc NATO countries for an unsupervised visit to one of their depots, and voila! Especially useful when you want to have CAS from Other Than Americans - as is the idea of handing over old Cobra gunships to Ethiopia. If a flight of 4 Cobras in desert camo hits a terrorist camp and shoots the hell out of it, only the one that swings in low for the BDA needs to be from Ethiopia. The other 3 can stay up and provide cover for the scouting one, and that means they can be anybody's. Funny thing is, the US Marine Corps still uses SuperCobras as attack helicopters - no good way to tell the difference visually between Cobra and SuperCobra.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-01-14 02:18|| 2007-01-14 02:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Pappy, I'd say more logistical rather than logical.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-01-14 08:50|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-01-14 08:50|| Front Page Top

#10 SAS hunts fleeing Al-Qaeda Africans

[have to assume that] any "Brit*" who was captured in Somilia was a commited Muslim Nazi and would not hesitate to use a bio weapon, nuke or chem in an attack on our cities.

add: [we have to assume] Muslim Nazis of some stripe are already here; al-Q, Hezz'allah, Abu Sayyaf, Hamass the Qudz Pudz....

*How many of the "Brits" spoke the Mother tongue of England as their 1st language?

Posted by RD 2007-01-14 10:26|| 2007-01-14 10:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Steve, my intent was not to call the SAS mercenaries. The article does also mention mercenaries.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-14 11:16|| 2007-01-14 11:16|| Front Page Top

#12 No probs, just want to be clear. The SAS is one of the world's finest.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-01-14 12:17|| 2007-01-14 12:17|| Front Page Top

#13 American mercenaries, Bounty Hunters, Head Hunters..is a heart throb!! With modern sophisticated weapons and tactics, and painted stripped like a zebra; is what we needed all along, to 'shake up the natives'!!

Posted by smn 2007-01-14 18:34|| 2007-01-14 18:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Military ops or are the SAS boys just hunting them for sport?

Posted by SteveS 2007-01-14 22:24|| 2007-01-14 22:24|| Front Page Top

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