Posted by Bill Fright on 01/12/83 11:55

GMAN wrote:

> In article <0bzkdSS44K3EFw0E@movingvision.demon.co.uk>, mv@movingvision.co.uk wrote:
>
>>It's ironic that we've only just had another strand about flying with
>>camera kit. I'm on standby to go to the Gulf this month and glad to
>>already have several robust flight cases in stock. Not Pelicans but
>>galvanised steel, with reinforced seams and corners together with bloody
>>great padlockable closures. Also glad to be shooting HDV on what's
>>becoming for me the most common set up, a Z1 and an A1. I have every
>>expectation that they'll survive all but the most unusually violent
>>baggage handling. I will try to use direct flights too.
>>
>>But just a little patriotic rant from me. The British 'police' (actually
>>MI5 and MI6) have done an excellent job of counter terrorism, however
>>the American media barely acknowledge it, even claiming a significant US
>>part in the operation, meantime the Pakistanis are also suggesting that
>>it's all due to them too. The fact is that this operation has been
>>underway since January. The mad buggers have been under surveillance and
>>brilliantly infiltrated all that time. The US agencies by and large only
>>being recipients of intelligence information from the Brits. The
>>Pakistanis were merely used by the Brits to arrest two guys who had
>>conveniently gone to Pakistan where they could be 'effectively
>>interrogated'. Just thought I'd mention it because the understated and
>>ultra low profile UK intelligence folks will never crow from the roof
>>tops on their own behalf. Been going on like this since WWII.
>
>
> Don't get some of us wrong. I, for one, appreciate the work and support that
> your government and the agencies involved do to help us Americans out and I
> surely hope we continue to do the same for you. Our two countries seem to be
> the only ones on this planet taking this terrorism crap seriously. The UN and
> the rest of the world either bury their heads in the sand or blame Israel or
> the USA for all of "THEIR" problems.
>

Perhaps you meant creating the terroist threat? Going to war in Iraq on
trumped up charges was just the stick the current terrorists needed to
open their wasps nests. Afganistan made perfect sense throughout the
world but Iraq never made any sense other than economic. We'll just have
to wait another ten years for the general US public to come to realize
what a disaster our war in Iraq has been.

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