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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187636)	5/29/2006 8:02:10 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) of 281500

There was a perfect example of this. Ayman Zawahiri, #2 of Al Qai'da, was traveling in a car with some reported unknown "civilians", heading for Pakistan. We had the shot (from what I was told)... perfect opportunity to take him down with a Hellfire launched from a Predator. But someone "upstairs" decided that since we didn't know if they were terrorists, or actual "civilians, we couldn't kill him. Think of that.. We had the chance to take out the operational and planning head of Al Qai'da. In terms of WWII, he would have been the equivalent of "Mussolini"... But we couldn't do it because of "rules" about not targeting civilians. What would you have done in this case?? With that description, you clearly don't launch a Hellfire. And you tend to phrase [distort] to a favorable position. If I made an adjustment for that, the situation was probably closer to: Hey...look there's a vehicle headed for Pakistan. Maybe terrorists are in that vehicle. Who knows? There's a 50-50 shot. jttmab

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