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Spectacular Stop-Motion Animation: My Strange Grandfather

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Dark_Falcon2/24/2013 9:49:55 am PST

re: #380 kirkspencer

What part?

That there are people disappearing, some showing up dead? Nope, there’s plenty of historical record.

That our special forces are the ones doing it? After all, al Qaeda does it (as do several other criminal and terrorist organizations). The problem is that we do make people disappear. We have done raids and the people get moved to prisons in other nations, eventually (sometimes) winding up in Gitmo.

The jarring note is the person showing up a couple days later with a cut throat. That’s not typical of our behavior - but we do have bad apples who would do that and worse, so it can’t be dismissed on its face.

fwiw, I suspect it’s not our special forces. But I know too much - have seen too much documented of our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan - to be able to dismiss it out of hand.

I agree its happening, but I don’t think its us. But we’re unlikely to be able to demonstrate that, given the situation in the province. The locals aren’t likely to contradict the story, not unless we can demonstrate we can protect them and these days the only way to do that would be to give their entire extended family passage to the US or to Europe.