• Osama bin Laden's son-in-law detained in US operation in Jordan
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[quote]Suleiman Abu Ghaith, one of the most high-profile [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/al-qaida"]al-Qaida[/URL] militants sought by US intelligence services, was in US custody on Thursday following a secret operation involving Jordanian intelligence services, the[URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cia"]CIA[/URL] and the [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/fbi"]FBI[/URL].The US attorney general, Eric Holder, confirmed the detention and US authorities announced that he had been charged with a conspiracy to kill US nationals.[B] He was due to appear in court in New York on Friday.[/B] The exact details of the operation were still vague, but it appears to have taken place in [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/jordan"]Jordan[/URL], a US ally in the region. Abu Ghaith, a 47-year-old Kuwaiti whose real name is not publicly known, is one of the last of the militants active in the late 1990s and early part of the last decade to be killed or captured by US intelligence services of their allies. Bin Laden died in a US special forces raid on a house in the northern Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad in May 2011. Al-Qaida has since been led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, a veteran Egyptian extremist. Initial public confirmation of the capture of Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of al-Qaida's late leader [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/osamabinladen"]Osama bin Laden[/URL] and a former spokesman for the group, came from Peter King, a senior Republican member of the House intelligence committee and former chairman of the House committee on homeland security. [/quote] [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/07/bin-laden-son-in-law-detained-jordan]Guardian[/url]
Alright, good. At least we're trying them in court (Even though it's really just a show trial) BEFORE we kaboom them with drone strikes and whatnot this time.
oh great, another pointless reason for the US to stay at war. [sp]meanwhile, still looking for oil[/sp]
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;39842957]oh great, another pointless reason for the US to stay at war. [sp]meanwhile, still looking for oil[/sp][/QUOTE] If we wanted oil we'd be fucking up Saudia Arabia and not fucking around in shithole Afghanistan where there's absolutely no natural resources, AT ALL. I seriously hope you were joking.
[QUOTE=0FucksGiven;39842994]If we wanted oil we'd be fucking up Saudia Arabia and not fucking around in shithole Afghanistan where there's absolutely no natural resources, AT ALL. I seriously hope you were joking.[/QUOTE] the only reason the US doesn't want to pull out of the war is because they'll look like pussies if they do. It's all about oil and dick size
[QUOTE=0FucksGiven;39842994]If we wanted oil we'd be fucking up Saudia Arabia and not fucking around in shithole Afghanistan where there's absolutely no natural resources, AT ALL. I seriously hope you were joking.[/QUOTE] Saudi Arabia hands us out petrol like it's cheap milk, that's why. Afghanistan and Iraq were two whole different stories. How come we came in Iraq to kick the "evil dictator who had border conflicts with Koweit" and we don't do shit about the fuckhead in Saudi Arabia who are fucking the human right on a daily basis?
[QUOTE=Bliblixe;39843065]Saudi Arabia hands us out petrol like it's cheap milk, that's why. Afghanistan and Iraq were two whole different stories. How come we came in Iraq to kick the "evil dictator who had border conflicts with Koweit" and we don't do shit about the fuckhead in Saudi Arabia who are fucking the human right on a daily basis?[/QUOTE] Karzai, who we're keeping in power in Afghanistan, was/is nearly as bad as Hussein, and hell, the Saudis make Hussein look kinda lenient. Hell, we directly funded Mubarak's regime and were good trade partners with Libya, even outsourcing our torture centers to Libyans for the sake of keeping our hands clean. The wars were about politics and resources, it wasn't for liberation nor was it for hunting down bin Laden. We don't need to go to war with nations that already are on our side. You're absolutely right.
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;39843021]the only reason the US doesn't want to pull out of the war is because they'll look like pussies if they do. It's all about oil and dick size[/QUOTE] Could you tell me the amount of oil afghanistan and iraq are exporting to us And how much we have spent on the war And how cheap the oil is elsewhere?
Detained? Really? I thought the official policy was just to murder everyone with drone strikes because prisoners are too politically difficult to deal with.
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;39842957]oh great, another pointless reason for the US to stay at war. [sp]meanwhile, still looking for oil[/sp][/QUOTE] How does capturing an AQ member in Jordan provide a reason to stay at war?
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;39842957]oh great, another pointless reason for the US to stay at war. [sp]meanwhile, still looking for oil[/sp][/QUOTE] If we were honestly concerned about oil and natural gas we would be annexing Canada, and removing most of the restrictions regarding rigging in Alaska.
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;39843021]the only reason the US doesn't want to pull out of the war is because they'll look like pussies if they do. It's all about oil and dick size[/QUOTE] You do know that a good 30% of our domestic oil (meaning at the gas station) comes from [I]Canada[/I], right?
There is so much ignorance in here. Do you guys seriously believe Afghanistan has oil? Does geography mean nothing anymore?
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;39843021]the only reason the US doesn't want to pull out of the war is because they'll look like pussies if they do. It's all about oil and dick size[/QUOTE] you are sounding like an ignorant conspiracy nut
[QUOTE=scout1;39843346]Could you tell me the amount of oil afghanistan and iraq are exporting to us And how much we have spent on the war And how cheap the oil is elsewhere?[/QUOTE] iraq was sort of blowbacky because the government is trying to take sovereignty over its energy industry iirc. however, in the opening years of occupation, contractors(haliburton) were making bank rebuilding iraq and oil contracts were signed with western firms. [editline]9th March 2013[/editline] to say there weren't economic and geopolitical incentives for invading iraq is absolutely preposterous.
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;39842957]oh great, another pointless reason for the US to stay at war. [sp]meanwhile, still looking for oil[/sp][/QUOTE] From what I understand actually having [B]SERVED[/B] in Afghanistan, there is literally no fucking resources there unless the US wants mountains and tribal yokels. There is close to no oil, and whatever oil is there, it's all been sold to China and near by Arabian countries.
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