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28 June 2015

Pentagon "Backpack Nuke" Spy Chief Undersecretary Of Defense Michael G. Vickers USD-1 Despite Career Of Failures Highest Civilian Military Intelligence Official "Quietly Retires" Under Obama New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter

     Sunday, 28 June 2015, WASHINGTON - Perhaps but doubtfully intentionally on the internationally recognized day on which Socialism is celebrated worldwide, on Thursday, 1 May 2015 United States Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD-1) chief Michael G. Vickers "quietly retired" from a position that most Americans including New York Times reporters apparently unsurprisingly have no idea is the highest-ranking civilian military intelligence position which oversees the Pentagon's $80 billion largest portion of the United States "intelligence community's" (publicly known) annual spying budget and also manages the nation's largest number of about 180.000 "intelligence people".
     Considering the responsibility of Vickers' position for imposing a major financial burden on the most unfairly heavily burdened taxpaying effectively chronically poverty-stricken portion of the country due to the government's obscenely wastefully unnecessary so-called "defense" spending not to mention the untold numbers of killings Vickers had overseen and ordered worldwide in the American people's name Vickers' reported departure from the Pentagon received very little publicity there with a low-key goodbye and curiously little coverage in the press.
     The New York Times article linked to below reporting Vickers' future plans simply confined itself to relate the uninformative news that Vickers himself provided that he intended to "sleep" claiming often having been woken up during his Pentagon service as Vickers told it on his special apparent "Batman"-type phone (reminiscent of the 1960's telephone drama "Batman" special red phone) presumably to authorize drone strike kills as well as other murders and so on which now allegedly had had its line "cut" along amusingly quaintly as told accidentally with his lined phone and cable service laughably claimed to have "cut him off" from the world as if he relied on technology for Pentagon communications from roughly a century ago.
     The Pentagon apparently had not heard this anecdote as it told the Washington Post at the same time that Vickers future assignments had not been ascertained although with his common drone strike kill experience he may find himself in some future assignment with the seemingly reassigned to disappearance CIA's "the Wolf" aka "Roger" aka "Mike" both of whom regardless of the atrocities for which they may have been responsible at least along with the CIA agent responsible for the "Argo" f*ck yourself mission have been portrayed in feature films although neither is known likewise to have received the "Intelligence" star.
     As to his curious career journey earning him such positions of enormous responsibility including for at least $80 billion of the taxpayers' money Vickers hardly distinguished himself in high school focusing his energy instead on lifting weights while maintaining a "gentleman's" (had he been attending Harvard which he did not) C+ average although a high school teacher oddly inexplicably did introduce him (according to the exceedingly sparse obviously slanted Wikipedia article also linked to below suspiciously seemingly poorly written by a friend) to the "realities of International Relations and the CIA's Secret War in Cambodia."
     The vision of the CIA's illegal activities killing foreigners in their homes overseas in undeclared war in a failed effort to achieve unobtainable objectives apparently resonated with Vickers and allegedly ignited a lifelong interest in Vickers in "International Relations" apparently as used in the loose sense by organizations such as the CIA as assassinating and killing people rather than as might be otherwise recognized in more established academic settings although Vickers would later use his contacts to get into these institutions for which he clearly was academically unfit in his "off years" to falsify a pedigree of "scholarship" much like a Bush might at Yale.
     Somehow being admitted to Pierce College where after being beat out for quarterback by Mark Harmon (later to become the star in the television drama "NCIS" and apparently enjoying a significantly more successful career at least by objective standards than Vickers) Vickers joined the Green Berets where he had the opportunity to prepare for his now "ideal occupation" of being in the C.I.A. Vickers reportedly scored 160 points on the Army's "Intelligence" test whatever that might be being the highest score possible and excelled at "Special Operations" training and hand-to-hand combat with many other similar extraordinary accomplishments apparently attributed to him in Wikipedia by an apparent admirer of equal academic ability given the misuse in this section of the Wikipedia piece of words more commonly confused by elementary school students such as the use of the word "through" for "throw".
     Sometime after this as a Green Beret during Cold War 1.0 Vickers reportedly either "volunteered to parachute" or depending on which version one prefers actually with a team infiltrated the borders of Warsaw Pact countries to place "backpack nukes" in those countries which as described in the Wikepedia article linked to below (there described under "suitcase nukes") were a later generation of portable nuclear weapons first developed by the C.I.A. and placed by Navy SEALS in North Vietnam in the early 1960's although never detonated. Although Vickers seemingly allegedly claimed his team actually "detonated" the weapons brought into Warsaw Pacts countries this seems an extremely unlikely claim as the portable nukes hidden in Warsaw Pact countries' populated or strategic areas might have been magnitudes more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and presumably someone would have noticed the large thermonuclear explosions with WWIII ensuing.
     (Today many do believe that the United States and the Russian Federation may still have powerful portable nuclear devices hidden in one another's countries left over from Cold War 1.0 near population centers as confirmed by one Russian spy defected to the U.S. but never found in the Shenandoah Valley that can be triggered on command of considerably more concern again as the United States and the Russian Federation effectively now have entered Cold War 2.0 with the "Atomic Clock" nearly as close to zero as ever. The portable devices reportedly incidentally also have been developed by the Israelis should this help calm anyone's nerves about global security.)
     What is particularly curious about Vickers' ever-advancing career is that it appears that almost all subsequent major covert military operations in which he participated or commanded in an intelligence capacity eventually proved to be spectacular failures ending in disastrous unforeseen consequences to the United States such as the creation and/or empowerment through funding and weapons supplies in the CIA's wildly expensive "Operation Cyclone" establishing the Taliban and al-Qaeda as obviously major later threats which succeeded in inflicting great harm to the U.S.
     Vickers bad judgment apparently continued after a lengthy sabbatical from "service" to the U.S. which later came to include later colossal failures such as the policies Vickers enthusiastically supported against Iraq now seen as being largely directly responsible for the circumstances allowing for the creation of ISIS incidentally totally unforeseen by Vickers both in his major "think tank" paper with web address below for interested readers as well as his Johns Hopkins' PhD. 1,000 page thesis on the need for aggressive action against Iraq presumably available upon request from that institution.
     In other words not very intelligent "Intelligence" at all with a remarkable inability to foresee the horrible consequences of the mistakes in which he played a leading role regardless of Vickers' alleged "perfect 160" score on his Army "Intelligence" test but seemingly more consistent with his high school C+ average suggesting he might have been better qualified for a less responsible position than the Undersecretary for Defense (USD-1) for which position President Obama unbelievably appointed Vickers after he was brought back into the federal government first for consultation by not-really-elected Cheney lapdog "President" George "litttle shrub" Bush after an apparent self-imposed period of decades of exile following his failures.
     It was during this period of exile that Vickers somehow got his Masters from Wharton followed by what sounds to be his bogus PhD. from Johns Hopkins with the adviser Eliot A. Cohen who sounds as if he should have been a certified lunatic apparently obsessed with the fanatical belief that the U.S. should go to war with Iraq simply because "Iraq had tried to assassinate Bush's father". This view which apparently deeply influenced Vickers in the writing of his 1,000 page PhD. thesis as well as his later "think tank" paper available as noted to interested readers somehow through the web address provided below.
     Vickers apparently after being taken care of at the private think tank was taken back into the federal fold of idiots willing to buy into the the Bush-Cheney obsession with attacking Iraq. Also of course actual cerebral intelligence clearly was not a qualification required for any senior position in the not-really-elected Bush-Cheney administration thus catapulting he new "scholar" Vickers in 2007 to the major Pentagon position of Assistant Undersecretary for Defense serving as adviser to the Secretary of Defense in such matters as "counter-terrorism" and other "operational activities". As mentioned above President Obama unbelievably retained him upon becoming President seemingly inconceivably naming him Undersecretary of Defense (USD-1) replacing James A. Clapper who became the Director of National Intelligence with blanket oversight of all intelligence operations.
     Vickers finally cemented his ineptitude in 2013 when along with the Snowden disclosures of the N.S.A. which he oversaw he appeared before the Armed Services Committee jointly predicting with the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency "future risks" that completely missed the imminent explosive emergence of ISIS. Previous to this Vickers was implicated but ultimately exonerated apparently for leaking information to the producers of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" over which the CIA essentially required script-review authority over in order to make sure it implied torture was "successful" in the ongoing efforts of Bush-Cheney Administration including top CIA officials to avoid prosecution for war crimes against humanity in return for assisting the producers with the film much as the police chief of Los Angeles had years earlier in requiring pre-review of scripts of the television drama "Dragnet" in exchange for assisting the producers of that show with the use of official Los Angeles Police Department personnel and equipment. Interested readers can find more information on this in the appropriate link below.
     According to the Washington Post article linked to below for interested readers Vickers did state at a recent conference that there was not so much one over-riding security threat to the United States today but rather those caused collectively by Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorism and cybersecurity risks. There apparently are those who might not agree as referenced in last Saturday night's airing of the HBO program VICE devoted to what has become known due to the growing threat of NATO conflict with Putin's Russian Federation as Cold War 2.0 which as noted is reflected in the least time remaining until nuclear annihilation on the infamous "Atomic Clock" since the time of the Cold War. In any case it looks as if Vickers may be batting close to .999 in wrong predictions perhaps making him a likely candidate for yet another top military security position in the disastrous case of "Latino"  Jeb Bush 2016 should he become the third Bush to seek to destroy the country whether by Presidential win or coup d'etat.
     Readers interested in the above can go to various links provided below for more information with commentary on certain links which appear either incomplete and/or to contain significantly different information from one another.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G. Vickers - surprisingly little information on him in Wikipedia considering especially the last position in which he served, as highest ranking civilian, former Green Beret, special forces, CIA, Afghanistan operation Cyclone, Wharton business masters, and Johns Hopkins PhD under Eliot A. Cohen apparent Iraq war fanatic because Iraq tried to "assassinate Bush's father" and notably Vickers PhD adviser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen - Vickers PhD. thesis adviser appears to be an idiot fanatic for war against Iraq since 2001 including because Iraq tried to "assassinate Bush's father". Query how could Obama let Vickers continue in his Bush position then advanced in 2011. His credentials in Afghanistan sound ultimately like a failure and his PhD adviser an idiot for war in Iraq which Vickers later echoed in calling for smaller force as in Afghanistan to win in Iraq after it already clearly was a disastrous war started with lies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/a-secret-warrior-leaves-the-pentagon-as-quietly-as-he-entered.html?_r=0 - Vickers responsible for largest share of U.S. $80 Billion annual (claimed) intelligence budget which goes to Pentagon not to the CIA nor any other agency

http://www.govexec.com/defense/2015/04/pentagon-intel-chief-retires-citing-no-wrongdoing-zero-dark-thirty-leak/111514/  - Vickers denies on "retiring" allegations of leaking information for "Zero Dark Thirty" re which there are other CIA-prroducer conference calls and meetings re CIA review of script for film. Vikkers admits he missed ISIS threat. Makes clear his future plan is not just to "sleep".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke - Vikker was Green Beret responsible for placing portable nuclear weapons in Warsaw Pact countries during Cold War 1.0. Were these actually not yet placed as New York Times reports or already placed as indicated in Wikepedia article link internally here.  Claims his Green Beret teams infiltrated Warsaw Pack countries with "backpack nukes" to detonate them.

https://fas.org/irp/congress/2013_hr/022713vickers.pdf -Unclassified report by Vickers and head of DIA in early 2013 complains of "budget cuts" to defense and intelligence while reporting over 100, 000 employees and list current national security risks for Armed Services Committee in open hearing and completely miss coming threat of ISIS with no mention at all of ISIS, its formation or even recognizing a potential for its formation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/1c9/mike-vickers-longtime-senior-intelligence-official-and-former-cia-strategist-to-leave-pentagon/ - Vickers spent from 1980s to 2006 out of work perhaps because of involvement with massive buildup of future Taliban and Al-Qaeda funded by CIA and DOD in obsession to drive USSR from Afghanistan in massively long-term failure Operation Cyclone. Vickers later oversaw DIA, NSA and other "intelligence" agencies. His departure follows by just a month the appointment by Obama of new Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Obama kept Vickers as a holdover from the Bush Administration.

Vickers "Think Tank" Paper:

file:///home/chronos/u-7a51b375f12f0369d925e36ea5039d09383d6cb2/Downloads/2004.12.01-Revolution-in-War.pdf - go to this address for Vickers' paper at CSBA about predictions of future warfare and budget-economic issues (in conservative think "how to get rich off war" tank)

http://www.muckety.com/Michael-G-Vickers/165727.muckety - Vickers has more connections to influential people than 93% of Americans according to this source perhaps explaining his later "higher education" and official appointments.

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31 January 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Defense Secretary Hagel Breaks Ranks With Obama Administration Says He Would Not Sign Certification Releasing Guantanamo Detainees Without Assurance They Will Pose No Threat To American Forces

     Saturday, 31 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an exclusive interview with CNN outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel broke ranks with the Obama Administration which continues years-long efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention and torture facility by saying that he as Defense Secretary would not sign any certification releasing detainees without assurance that they will not pose any future risk to United States servicemen and women. Hagel at the same time claimed that about 30% of those released will reappear on the battlefield with the Taliban fighting American troops. Last December outgoing Defense Secretary Hagel nevertheless expressed confidence that Afghan security forces are capable of themselves defending Kabul against the Taliban. The prior announcement of Hagel's (rumored forced) resignation as Defense Secretary was made late last November due to "job stress" and "decisions on ISIS/ISIL". Wikepedia - Chuck Hagel.
       Meanwhile Ed Royce (R-CA) Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs likewise took the opportunity of an interview with CNN to raise alarm as to what Royce claimed was a plan to release in contrast to Hagel's 30% figure the five highest risk detainees kept at Guantanamo who Royce claimed were all Taliban "leaders" two of whom Royce moreover claims have ties to Al-Qaeda. Royce claimed that after one year's detention in Qatar the five would be allowed to return to the battlefied. Further Royce stated that he believes such detainees should be kept in Guantanamo until such time as the Taliban is no longer an active fighting or organized force either in Afghanistan nor now also Pakistan. Royce volunteered no timeframe as to when he believed that might occur.
       Despite the Obama Adiminstration's long efforts to empty Guantanamo Bay pursuant to President Obama's original campaign promise and mandate those efforts have been delayed but not stopped altogether by among other things Congress' refusal to provide adequate funding to remove and place the detainees combined with the Obama Administrtion's difficulties apparently in finding suitable host destination countries. Meanwhile as the numbers of detainees at Guantanamo allegedly were decreased reportedly at least for some time the CIA simultaneously had been accused of "night dumping" of new detainees at Guantanamo presumably largely from CIA global "black sites" who for whatever reasons it no longer had been feasible for the CIA to keep at those sites. This practice would of course be facilitated by the CIA's apparent historical long-term inability for whatever reason to count the exact number of detainees held by the CIA at Guantanamo as to which detainees the CIA therefore has claimed a resultant inability to report exact numbers to superiors and overseers.
       The national and worldwide cries to empty and close Guantanamo of course have been greatly increased due to the horrific revelations made public by the release of the Bush Administration CIA Torture Report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning the never-before-known unreported scope or brutality and inhumanity rising beyond the level of torture to war crimes. This torture and these war crimes against humanity were committed by the CIA in conspiracy with the Bush Administration at Guantanamo Bay where the CIA undertook completely unprepared a torture program developed for the CIA by two "contract" hack psychologists for over $80 million of taxpayers' money.
       What American taxpayers got for the $80 million the CIA paid the two hack contract psychologists apparently was a "plan" including to chain detainees hanging from ceilings, chaining them to freezing cement floors overnight such that one was even murdered by this exposure, waterboarding including one detainee at least 83 times being made to believe he had drowned and to the point of total non-responsiveness, cramming detainees in small suitcases smeared with feces, mock executions, and one apparently unplanned particularly noteworthy horrorshow in which an apparently more unstable than the average CIA operative later sent home early for "anger management issues" without further punishment put an electric drill to the head of a detainee and forced the detainee to play Russian Roulette along with the angry CIA operative.
       Considering that these years of torture and war crimes against humanity committed by the CIA including its officials at the time and continuing to illegally cover-up with lies all the way to this day as well as top Bush Administration officials and their "hack" lawyers yielded absolutely no actionable intelligence whatsoever which anyone involved is capable of specifically identifying it is not known if Americans received their $80 million back from the two contract psychologists who must have spent at least fifteen minutes thinking up this brilliant torture plan (and then probably a couple more years trying to make it sound reasonable and come up with the equally imaginative euphemistic term "enhanced interrogation"). Perhaps these two psychologists also might be reined in on conspiracy charges where they too might experience "enhanced confinement" in a "federal secured enhanced rehabilitation facility").
        Finally as President Obama also has emphasized the amount of money Americans now are paying to hold each of these detainees numbers in the millions of dollars totaling at most recent reports more than $150 million annually to the Defense Department to maintain the Guantanamo detention facility. Apparently of the now than 127 detainees fully 80-90 have been "cleared" but with nowhere to go. Congress has prevented any from being sent to United States soil to be tried, imprisoned or for any other reason. Meanwhile what was an entire United States Naval Base on Cuba now must be maintained as a "military prison" as of January 2015 with a staff of over 6,000 service members, contractors and civilians to watch over the remaining 127 detainees of whom a small handful are thought to be a future risk. That totals at least 50 keepers for each detainee as well as the need to keep the entire facility open.
       Every day the remaining detainees are held uncharged untried unsentenced in a legal limbo anathema to every principle of American jurisprudence ultimately in the words of eighty-three (83) retired United States Generals and flag officers these remaining detainees serve first and foremost as one thing: "A recruiting poster" for terrorists who would declare the United States their enemy all over the world. In other words in every way Guantanamo represents the very absolute of everything it was meant to accomplish and a living monument to American failure.

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07 January 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Military-Style Terror Attack Leaves 12 Dead 4 Critically Wounded At French Satirical Magazine "Charlie Hebdo" By Three At-Large Assailants Armed With AK-47s And Possible RPGs Manhunt Underway

                                                  "They came to kill not to die."
                                                                                              CNN Commentator

       Wednesday, 7 January 2015, PARIS - News agencies now are reporting a midday lunch hour (Paris time) military-style terror attack about two hours ago by what are believed to be three (3) at large gunmen armed with AK-47s (Automatic Kalashnikov 1947) and a possible rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) on French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" (the "Magazine") with a history of "poking fun" at the absurdity of various religious groups of all faiths including since 2006 of satirical cartoons of the prophet of Mohammad resulting in a previous terror attack firebombing in 2011 on the Magazine. The Magazine's current issue featured a cartoon of ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi. This is the worst terror attack on French soil in two decades. France now has declared itself to be highest level of alert for terrorist attacks. The magazine's name is derived from a defunct French magazine named "Charlie" after Charlie Brown. "Hebdo" strictly means "daily" although the Magazine apparently was actually a weekly.
       The Magazine reportedly refused to be intimidated by either the 2011 terror attack nor continuing threats dating back to 2006 and was under 24/7 "heavy police protection" which just was recently scaled back for unknown reasons. Although journalist hostages previously have been executed by ISIS this is the first time that a news organization has been targeted by terrorists considerably widening attempts to stifle the voice of a free press. The gunmen apparently had significant intelligence as to the reduced security as well as the fact that they were attacking during the Magazine's editorial meeting. Nevertheless the gunmen first entered the wrong building at address number 6 where they were told it was not the Magazine offices at which point the gunmen went to number 10 and entered the Charlie Hebdo building.
       The two or more masked gunmen apparently entered the editorial board meeting and specifically targeted the editor-in-chief as well as four famous cartoonists including the previously firebombed targeted cartoonist of the famous Mohammad 2011 cartoon killing ten (10) journalists altogether. Upon leaving the gunmen in perfect French with no accent said "Charlie is dead".
       The black-clad masked heavily armed two (2) or possibly more gunmen were captured in "home" videos as well as a video briefly released then removed from the internet after they left the building. Although none of the videos or information developed so far show exact details of the killings of those at the Magazine's editorial meeting the videos do show the gunmen calmly firing their weapons in the street after apparently three policemen were engaged resulting in two wounded one of whom was wounded on the ground when a gunman calmly approached then executed with an AK-47 shot to head.
       The gunmen shouted "God is Great" in perfect French as the assailants stood in the street and according to Reuters also shouted "We have avenged the Prophet". One police car left in the street showed a tight pattern of bullet holes in the windshield indicating a relatively high degree of training including not setting an AK-47 on automatic but first set on semi-automatic firing a tight pattern of three shots. The gunmen in contrast to prior terrorist attacks were not suicidal as they calmly left in at least one black sedan with one gunmen calmly even first stopping to pick up a sneaker the gunman apparently had lost. The gunmen then slowly drove away.
       Although there were several lower profile attacks in Paris before Christmas as well as others thwarted before today's attack today's terror attack has "sent a shiver up the spine" of the French because of the attack's apparent military sophistication as well as the fact that the gunmen reportedly spoke perfect French. The French Interior Minister has assured the French that heavy security has been deployed to all critical French locations such as train stations, etc. Both he and the French Prime Minister assured the French that a full-scale manhunt is underway for three (3) "criminals" who he said will face a punishment commensurate with their crime.
       United States President Barack Obama through his spokesperson Josh Earnest as well as in a his own statement sent to French officials said among other things that the United States "Stood shoulder to shoulder with France" which the President referred to as the United States' "Oldest Ally" perhaps referring to French assistance to Americans in the Revolutionary War and especially the French naval presence role in bringing that war to a conclusion with the surrounding of the English in the siege at Norfolk, Virginia at which point Lord Cornwallis surrendered. Of the United States executive branch agencies the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been the first and most vociferously offered to make its resources available to the French government upon request.
       Meanwhile the Department of Homeland Security has taken the opportunity to complain that it has inadequate funding based on outdated needs of a few years ago. This has been attributed to the Republican government gridlock of the past couple years which has resulted among other things in the Republicans denying needed funding for perplexing reasons to the Department of Homeland Security meaning it is unable to be fully prepared to fulfill its duty in circumstances such as the present. The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board opines that hjopefully this strategy of shooting themselves in the foot will not continue to be the practice of Republicans now that they have taken control of the House of Representatives which many expect not to last for more than a period of two years during which time their ineptitude should become apparent to the American people from whom their limited power derives without causing too much more damage to these United States in the meantime.
       Of particular concern to French authorities and all Western intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies is the fact that France with its large north Parisian Islamic largely unpoliced currently is estimated to have has many as 3,000 citizens who have joined ISIS along with thousands more from other European countries who after receiving training from ISIS or other terrorist groups may return with their valid passports to their home countries to wreak havoc.

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22 April 2013

U.S. Obama Illegal African Network Of Thirty-Five Drone Bases And Counting

     Monday, 22 April 2013, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA - The United States reportedly has undertaken the rapid expansion of an African network of ("non-existent") illegal drone bases throughout this last vast largely unspoiled continent rather than undertaking something truly unexpected such as providing any meaningful humanitarian aid to the untold millions of starving, sick and dying persons here many of whom live their entire lives in abject poverty and misery.
       This massive far-flung American military buildup's acceleration has been steadily reported by various sources in the wake of some of the CIA's more recent lies propagated to the American people and the world community earlier this year planting alarmist Al-Qaeda Nigeria "lightening" takeover fairy tales of this African country said to be roughly five billion times the land area of the CIA's posh Langley,Virginia George Herbert Walker Bush Center for National "Intelligence" (including CIA parking lot, petting zoo and animal torture laboratories).
     CIA fed terror reports of the fragmented Nigerian Government's long-coming demise heralding the entire country's imminent fall within a matter of days or even perhaps hours to scarcely a handful of ill-equipped Al-Qaeda militants or at least persons who appeared by satellite possibly to dress like Al Qaeda militant-sympathizers turned out to be, especially once the French heeded frantic requests to call in airstrikes to bomb whoever it might be back to the Stone Ages were, as the saying goes, "greatly exaggerated". In any case they were as more usual than not wrong.
      Nevertheless as has since been documented in many publications, as well as the subject of demonstrations by groups such as the Answer Coalition at www.answersf.org the Pentagon has leapt at the opportunity to establish a major drone base in Niger and from there expanded throughout the "Dark Continent" rapidly establishing a network so far reported at more than thirty-five drone bases throughout the African continent amongst countries containing the most diverse and vast natural resources still left on the planet.
     President Obama winner of the Nobel Peace Prize also now seems determined to go down in history as the "Drone President" signing off personally on what in practice likely are by far the most CIA murders ever committed in one Presidency given their tendency to keep agents well out of harm's way by minimizing messy one-on-one assassinations but doing so instead at the cost of untold innocent foreign civilian lives sacrificed to keep targeting "lethal surveillance teams" and their young American "video game" warrior recruits safe and and well out of harm's way thousands of miles away piloting drones from suburban Virginia sheds.
     No doubt the Africans will be duly pleased to have their American friends back again in Africa, the irony of America's first African-American President being the one to herald the American's return surely not being lost on some. Who would have thought?

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