{"id":20651,"date":"2010-09-29T11:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20651"},"modified":"2010-09-29T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:53:02","slug":"that-terror-threat-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20651","title":{"rendered":"That terror threat in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading an article from the Associated Press<\/a> about the terror threat to Europe that the US has been helping the Euro-wienies with which was supposed to be a shooting spree ala Mumbai, but on a larger scale. <\/p>\n

I stopped when I got to this point;<\/p>\n

The recent terror threat has prompted a surge of attacks by unmanned U.S. drones in Pakistan, a Western counterterrorism official said.<\/p>\n

The official said the targeted strikes were aimed at al-Qaida and other militant groups arrayed in Pakistan’s tribal region near the Afghanistan border. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the details of the terror plot remain sensitive.<\/p>\n

Another British government official, however, said that while the drone strikes are thought to have disrupted the planning of the attacks the operation was still considered active.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration has intensified the use of drone-fired missiles in Pakistan’s border area, but this month there have been at least 21 attacks \u2014 more than double the highest number fired in any other single month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, wait a second. Why would they have more targets suddenly? Do they know where the al Qaeda bases are so when they need to give the impression that they’re tough on terror, they fly out a couple of zombie ninja robots, fire off rockets at a known pre-plotted base? Or are they flying around Waziristan firing off rockets at everything that moves? Or are there just more targets because of the planned operation?<\/p>\n

In order to increase the attacks, it has to be one of the three choices, because in order to have double the number of attacks, you have to have double the number of targets. But you knew that.<\/p>\n

I’m leaning towards the first choice. Since Bob Woodward proved what we suspected, that the Obama Administration uses the war like every other issue, as a political opportunity.<\/p>\n

Every time there’s a new successful drone attack, dicksmith pees himself and belts out another “Obama’s winning!!!”<\/a> post at Vote Vets. So I wonder if they leave a boatload of targets untouched until they need good news about the war to distract from something else. Playing Russian Roulette with our troops’ welfare.<\/p>\n

In the next paragraph, some anonymous Pakistani government official says that Pakistan is stepping up operations in the last two weeks…it doesn’t seem to me that two weeks of increased Pakistani operations would double the number of targets for the month.<\/p>\n

Hey, I’m no expert, I’m just asking logical questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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