Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
by toyg on Saturday January 30, 2016 @09:46PM
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> the news clip would look bad
Not as bad as the one where foreign military forces just run around Denmark kidnapping people and imposing their (martial) law over Danish land? I doubt it.
You might not remember those months. US officials forced a foreign diplomatic plane to land on European soil and basically acted like enraged bulls (or rather angry but headless chickens) for weeks. The Danes would have had to do what they were bloody told to do, regardless of how they might have looked in a news clip, because that's what the almighty US wanted at that time, end of story.
Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
by tajen on Sunday January 31, 2016 @03:55AM
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What if the plane wasn't only for Snowden? I can't imagine a team of trained paramilitaries standing by for a few months, just for one person. In fact, did the plane leave empty?
Not as bad as the one where foreign military forces just run around Denmark kidnapping people and imposing their (martial) law over Danish land? I doubt it.
You might not remember those months. US officials forced a foreign diplomatic plane to land on European soil and basically acted like enraged bulls (or rather angry but headless chickens) for weeks. The Danes would have had to do what they were bloody told to do, regardless of how they might have looked in a news clip, because that's what the almighty US wanted at that time, end of story.