who ever is going down, they're going down HARDCORE..

[scylis]

1. all 6 SR-71s stationed up here at Elmendorf AFB, AK, have been taken back from NASA, reactivated as military planes, and are starting to leave the area. Blackbirds have been in mothballs for around a decade military-wise, so if they're needed, then this mother is going to be HUGE! they even reactivated the U-2 that was up here (was meaning that it's left too). the mere fact that something other than surveilence satalites are needed alone makes me almost....ALMOST....pity whoever is going down. (on a side note, i'm rather happy to see the Blackbirds back in service, even if only for a little while. my cousin's uncle was the guy that had to ditch his in the China Sea. besides that, they're just damn cool, IMHO)

2. the B-2s stationed up here have left, too. they only pull out the heavy-hitters like these puppies for some major ass kicking. it's the only time they're cost-effective, really.

3. all the SEALS from the west coast have shipped out. that's well over 100 highly trained elite special forces members. and this is on good authority, too. my friend works with a former SEAL (honorably discharged last year b/c his tour was over and he turned 25, now works at the Gap, of all places) and all of his active SEAL buddies on the west coast shipped out either yesterday or today (can't remember which). you don't need that many SEALS unless it's going to be a big, big operation. this is just a gut feeling on my part, but i doubt they're the only SpecOps group that's heading out to where ever, but that's just a gut feeling.

my guess is that at least a whole country is going to go down (or most of it, as is the case with Afganistan, since not all is controled by the Taliban(sp?)), and that we're going to turn it into one big, glass parking lot. if not massive surgical air strikes, then one helluva lot of SpecOps stuff is going to go down. just a guess, but it seems plausible given what my friends and i have seen with our own eyes up here and from info from my friends coworker.

 

[shadowsource]

It would have to be more complicated -

Bombing a Stone Age country back into the Ice Age isn't going to do anything but reveal that we're no less psychotic, but we have real weapons. We would have to take over the capital and install a government in which we had some confidence, while obtaining unprecedented cooperation from Pakistan and Russia and Iran (which hates the Taliban and bin Laden). The world would have to be involved,m and it might choose to do so. Much depends on the health of Ahmed Massoud, who was personally bombed on Sunday; the US said he was dead. And we would have to bear in mind that we used to pay many of these people, including bin Laden, when they were serving our interests against our current allies in this matter, the Russians.

 

[scylis]

it really depends on what the Taliban does with bin Laden. they've stated that they have him and he isn't going anywhere (as in escape), but nothing as far as what they're going to do with him. if they're smart, they'll hand him over, since being able to continue whatever mission they have is always a priority. i just don't know if i want them to be smart or not...

but really, at the bare minimum, they will be swift airstrikes on bin Laden's training camps and surgical SpecOps missions to take out whatever else we can find that can't be bombed. there's a pretty good chance that he was involved somehow, even if he just gave whoever ordered the attacks suicide troops to use, if there is someone else behind it.

regardless, the point is this: there is one hell of a mobilization going on.
if this is the start of another World War, we (as in at least NATO plus a good portion of the UN and others) intend to win it. as quickly and surgically as possible. if needed, the hammer will be dropped, and dropped hard.

 

[MissTaken]

Whatever is going to happening....

will happen soon, I expect.

Friends and relatives in the armed forces can't reveal there whereabouts or what the plan is.

However, when my brother said he isn't sure when he will be home, that bears a message. That has never been the case, even in the Gulf War.

I pray for all of our troops that they be safe and for all that politicians that are making decisions that their judgment is clear and sound.

Thanks for the up date, scylis.

Oh, and shadow, when I see GWB, I will tell him to give you a call. You are correct. Perhaps you should be consulting with the powers that be.

 

[Basia]

when I do want vengence for those lives lost, killing other innocents is not the way...


that's it, just a short one from me.