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Gunmen abducted Weinstein in 2011 from his home in Lahore, Pakistan. They posed as neighbors, offered food and then pistol-whipped the American aid worker and tied up his guards, according to his daughter Alisa Weinstein.

Weinstein was employed by J.E. Austin Associates Inc., a U.S. consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia, that is a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was a world-renowned development expert, according to the company's website.



"Warren spent his entire life working to benefit people across the globe and loved the work that he did to make people's lives better. In Pakistan, where he was working before he was abducted, he loved and respected the Pakistani people and their culture. He learned to speak Urdu and did everything he could to show his utmost and profound respect for the region.



During the operation in January, American officials had "no reason to believe either hostage was present" when the raid was launched on a compound in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

The White House also disclosed Thursday that two other Americans, both al Qaeda operatives, were also killed in U.S. counterterrorism operations in the same region.

Al Qaeda leader Ahmed Farouq, who was an American citizen, was killed in the operation that killed the two hostages.



something something about reading between the lines or whatever

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nothing would make me happier than if Obama was impeached for this. obviously it makes no difference in reality but as a TV soap opera it would be like the bad guy getting his comeuppance.
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dont forget adam gadahn was also allegedly killed, the grandson of someone on the board of directors of the ADL who converted to islam and joined al qaeda. surely not also a spook
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http://jeaustin.com/about/
http://jeaustin.com/about/who-we-are/
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Remember when people used to still be able to get pissed about indefinitely detaining American citizens without a trial? and now we're blowing them up with robots
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Meursault posted:

Remember when people used to still be able to get pissed about indefinitely detaining American citizens without a trial? and now we're blowing them up with robots


the robots are the more humane option, really

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we really missed the 4/20 never forget on this one, folks
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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welp,
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drone eye for the crap spy
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Why is galahad or whatever his name is, a spook
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stegosaurus posted:

Why is galahad or whatever his name is, a spook


because you touch.

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tpaine posted:

Meursault posted:

Remember when people used to still be able to get pissed about indefinitely detaining American citizens without a trial? and now we're blowing them up with robots

oh no not american citizens!!



theyre worth at least four or five times more than a brown

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the italian guy was probably a spook too, but coulda just been some poor tool caught up in the NGO-corporate-imperialist matrix, not that there's much of a difference between the two these days
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tpaine posted:

Meursault posted:

Remember when people used to still be able to get pissed about indefinitely detaining American citizens without a trial? and now we're blowing them up with robots

oh no not american citizens!!



Well yeah. I don't mean me, I just mean people (liberals) used to hold that up as something that should mean something, but they don't anymore

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i'm surprised/disappointed that more war/poverty tourists don't get schwacked on the regular
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camera_obscura posted:

i'm surprised/disappointed that more war/poverty tourists don't get schwacked on the regular



why dont you go on ahead and get to tourin', martha's vineyard

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i can say for a fact that garahard is a spook...

because it was me that debriefed him!

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mmm.... pistol whip.....
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tpaine posted:

did anyone see how i owned moresalt god fuck it



It would have been an even more thorough own if you had only italicized 'american.'

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Crow posted:

camera_obscura posted:

i'm surprised/disappointed that more war/poverty tourists don't get schwacked on the regular

why dont you go on ahead and get to tourin', martha's vineyard



Down by the river!