tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481838326205496616.post299484709166293075..comments2023-10-22T08:57:00.454-04:00Comments on Twelfth Bough: The Threshing FloorA. Peasanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01929646095992796530noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481838326205496616.post-45024774457773516432008-12-03T13:56:00.000-05:002008-12-03T13:56:00.000-05:00Job from hell..."All intelligence organisations to...Job from hell...<BR/><BR/>"All intelligence organisations today are at war within themselves, as all have been penetrated by foreign powers and domestic enemies, as a consequence of which no intelligence operative can ever trust any of his or her colleagues and must live with the knowledge that he or she is liable to be deceived, double-crossed or entrapped without warning at any stage of a given operation."<BR/><BR/>http://www.worldreports.org/news/183_washington_exposed_as_secretly_financing_al_qaedaA. Peasanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01929646095992796530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481838326205496616.post-89497190875186494782008-12-03T13:32:00.000-05:002008-12-03T13:32:00.000-05:00The faces are the only solid clue in the whole thi...The faces are the only solid clue in the whole thing, plus the notion of 10 guys shutting a city down for 3 days. <BR/><BR/>Wheels within wheels. Anarchists, gangs, and even al-Qaeda are and have been real. Decentralized organizations are wonderfully flexible and resilient, but it's easy to use their own momentum against them, using their motivations to fulfill your own purposes. With strict compartmentalizing on your side.MarcLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481838326205496616.post-56109806547654121372008-12-03T12:18:00.000-05:002008-12-03T12:18:00.000-05:00I have read that face mutilation (skin removed) is...I have read that face mutilation (skin removed) is a calling-card form of torture used by certain groups. It looks like this is definitely an internecine intelligence war that has broken through the surface.A. Peasanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01929646095992796530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481838326205496616.post-20495510220517579892008-12-03T11:55:00.000-05:002008-12-03T11:55:00.000-05:00Yeah, I saw and read the next before commenting he...Yeah, I saw and read the next before commenting here. Don't have a guess at a third party, either. <BR/><BR/>You have to figure anybody Pakistani or Kashmiri wouldn't have walked out of the Taj past Indian special forces, and it doesn't make sense for the guerillas to have all been de-faced by the Indians.MarcLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481838326205496616.post-39793267474943813192008-12-03T07:21:00.000-05:002008-12-03T07:21:00.000-05:00I don't know what to think now. It seems like a th...I don't know what to think now. It seems like a third party was involved (next post), to the surprise of the terrorists. And that appears to be hush hush.A. Peasanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01929646095992796530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-481838326205496616.post-83816695329100038682008-12-02T23:19:00.000-05:002008-12-02T23:19:00.000-05:00Great use of scripture, and thanks for digging up ...Great use of scripture, and thanks for digging up the other verses. <BR/><BR/>Ok, so having chewed on this a few days, I'll bite...it's a city take-down with shock value. Bread crumbs go back to ISI, nation-baiting ensues, the right wings of all sides come out ahead.<BR/><BR/>There doesn't have to be any objective other than an Islamist demonstration of the Indian government's weakness--this was only the latest in a string of terrorist ops in India, it was just bigger, and well-timed.<BR/><BR/>But, it would be good-cynical engineering to make Pakistan's extremists India's problem, in addition to ours. After all, they live right next to them, and we're out of options with the Pakis. What the ISI wrought and then winked at has outgrown it.MarcLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.com