On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > This Nightline summary of the latest State of the Union speech is > quite decent. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSsO0xUHtA] > > And then the news item from today that makes me write this - > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16714344 > > I find it somewhat curious that they decided to use the same exclusive > elite seal team, 'Seal Team 6', that dispatched Osama bin Laden to > also kill 9 Somalian gunmen hopped up on `khat` leaves. It must have > been an unfair contest. > > Nevertheless the bullets are real, so the risk for the special ops > team was real. If the choice of team and the subsequent decision to > send them in was purely dictated by operational wisdom, then that's > fine, however the fantastically good timing allowing Obama to casually > bring it up at his address, and for his propaganda machine to readily > reveal that it was the same team that killed Osama and Biden's lavish > praise makes me wonder if it wasn't stage managed from the start.
The rumor going around these parts is that a ransom was paid and the hostages freed (thats always the easiest way to get people freed...especially when you own the printing presses ) , the rest of the story of course is staged fiction.
