View Full Version : White House widening covert war in North Africa
BMT (RIP)
10-02-2012, 14:57
http://www.stripes.com/news/africa/white-house-widening-covert-war-in-north-africa-1.191566#.UGtQYNpOp38.twitter
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Streck-Fu
10-03-2012, 05:47
Why does that strike me as either an OPSEC violation or disinformation for the public?
Why does that strike me as either an OPSEC violation or disinformation for the public?
Well considering that the AP is the International Public Relations arm of the DNC...
Streck-Fu
10-03-2012, 09:25
Maybe my own bias at play but I read that as an attmpt to paint Obama as really paying attention to Libya and North Africa, were actually putting teams in place months ago, but this happened before they were ready...
But we were trying....Really, I swear
They are probably just trying to spin the MLE as some sort of "super secret squirrel shizzle" in an attempt to act like they've been on top of "it"...not
The New York Times and other media outlets said almost word-for-word the same thing in 2006...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Liaison_Element
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/international/americas/08forces.html?pagewanted=print