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                                             November 25, 2006

The October Surprise of
the 2002 midterm election
in the United States was a
casual announcement by the       Checking the details on that:
CIA, claiming credit for
having lobbed some cruise        [ref]
missles at a middle-
eastern bad guy.                 "On November 3, 2002, a CIA Predator ...
                                 was again in a military strike. A
I figured that this              Hellfire missile was fired at a car in
was a bit of sabre               Yemen, killing Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, an
clanging to remind               al-Qaeda leader thought to be responsible
the electorate that              for the USS Cole bombing. It was the
There's a War On.                first direct US strike in the War on
                                 Terrorism outside Afghanistan."
It left me thinking:

The *CIA* has cruise missles?         Which is supported by a
They're supposed to be an             Washington Post story:
*intelligence* agency.
                                      [ref]
  And:

  The United States now
  admits that it engages in           Or could it be that it
  assassination attempts?             doesn't count as an
                                      assasination if you
                                      use a cruise missle      MEANS_WHAT
                                      instead of a sniper?

      Well, what the hell,               Or it could be it doesn't
      maybe I'm just being a             count as assasination if
      naive intellectual or              There's A War On.
      something.
                                                          [ref]
      It could be that here                               [ref]
      in the "post-911 era"
      everything really is           Everything?
      different now, and we
      need to use every trick         Well that's
      in the book.                    what they said.


              After all, assassination
              has worked so well for
              Israel in the mideast, why
              shouldn't we get into it?



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