seems to me 3 + 1 in that tri-border area is bad math

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Britain's Guardian has definitely stretched the meaning of this cable even more than the Ambassador was stretching the meaning of "terrorism" to have something to report. It came directly on the heels of THIS ONE, wherein it reports a cop "admitting" "in public" that A Muslim who had been arrested in Brazil "on hate crimes-related" charges was "linked to" al-Qa'eda. Ahem.

We MIGHT be talking about ONE guy who in some way seemed to give material support to The Latrine, and, indeed, "KUBISKE" seems well-pleased about this "progress" as it affects the possible enhancement of dividends from the oft-mentioned 3 Plus 1. The 3 is Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The 1 is the United States. They meet to discuss security and law enforcement in their shared borders area. What is wrong with this picture? WHAT are we doing in such a powwow and DID we impose it on them to begin with? It sounds to me as though we did. It sounds to me as though we are just infiltrating their sovereignty to the greatest extent possible and this global hissy we pitched over terrorists we made up is succeeding in getting our fascists in where they were never allowed before.

That "with us or against us" fist waving thing Dubya did was about you-let-us-into-your-security-mechanisms-or-we-will-fuck-you-up. It worked. Everywhere.

And, now, how many are going to glimpse at that headline and think Brazil is a hotbed of Islamist killers?

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On an unfortunately related note, the CIA Office of Inspector General report on the "Airbridge Denial Program" is out, and is a very big PDF, so if you want to read it, or skim it, I heavily advise you right click THIS to download it. Much easier to use your reader if you want to get a better idea about the ways the United States "partners" with Latin American governments in furtherance of our multifarious wars on awful stuff... terrorism, drugs, human trafficking, DECENCY....

Seems that missionary and her daughter shot down in April of 2001 in Peru were victims of the CIA's bright idea to just shoot down planes they felt were carrying drugs. It was "routine"... and probably still is. Even if they were CERTAIN the planes were carrying drugs, just shooting them down, especially in someone else's country, but really ANYWHERE, is NOT okay, okay? I mean, do you even start to think Rafael Correa is too crabby with our people in Ecuador? I don't. I'm amazed any of them let any of us in for any reason.

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love, 99
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