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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (10149)	3/26/2004 9:54:16 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) of 81568

Running Scared guardian.co.uk The Pentagon pulled a key special forces team from Afghanistan and moved them to Iraq. From the article: Excerpts: Fifth Group Special Forces were a rare breed in the US military: they spoke Arabic, Pastun and Dari. They had been in Afghanistan for half a year, had developed a network of local sources and alliances, and believed that they were closing in on bin Laden. Without warning, they were then given the task of tracking down Saddam. "We were going nuts on the ground about that decision," one of them recalls. "In spite of the fact that it had taken five months to establish trust, suddenly there were two days to hand over to people who spoke no Dari, Pastun or Arabic, and had no rapport." Along with the redeployment of human assets came a reallocation of sophisticated hardware. The US air force has only two specially-equipped RC135 U spy planes. They had successfully vectored in on al-Qaida leadership radio transmissions and cellphone calls, but they would no longer circle over the mountains of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border.

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