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Title: US and Afghan troops disarmed for Panetta "unanounced" visit
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URL Source: http://investmentwatchblog.com/us-t ... rmed-for-panetta/#.T2G_ZWH6hkg
Published: Mar 14, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-03-15 06:38:39 by Tatarewicz
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A tense visit to Afghanistan by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta got off to an unscripted start when a stolen truck sped onto a runway ramp at the British military airfield as his plane was landing. Mr. Panetta was unhurt, but Pentagon officials said the Afghan driver emerged from the vehicle in flames. No explosives were found on the Afghan national or in the truck, the officials said, and the Pentagon was so far not considering the episode an attack on Mr. Panetta. But it reinforced the lack of security in Afghanistan at the start of his visit, the first by a senior member of the Obama administration since an American soldier reportedly killed 16 Afghan civilians, mostly children and women, in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan. The two-day trip, unannounced as usual for security reasons, had been planned months ago, but has taken on a new urgency since the Sunday massacre. Mr. Panetta, like President Obama, has denounced the killings and vowed to bring the killer to justice, a message he is to deliver in person to President Hamid Karzai and top Afghan defense and interior officials. The killings have further clouded the strained Afghan-American relations. Mr. Panetta was landing at Camp Bastion, a British air field that adjoins Camp Leatherneck, a vast Marine base in Helmand Province, which abuts Kandahar. www.nytimes.com/2012/03/1...ing-massacre.html?_r=1&hp Poster Comment: Looks like military brass suspects that troops are catching on as to who their real enemy is: Israel-serving stooges in the administration (and Congress).
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
This was done in Kosovo for Slicks visit too. The New Media seems to forget that. They removed the Firing Pins.
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"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
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