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Yes I'm fairly young. No, that doesn't mean I'm automatically dumber than you or have less life experience, thats just generally the case. I am not your general case.
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Posted by: Phoenix1330
Posted by: That Atheist
Posted by: Phoenix1330
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OP ^^[/quote]ok, reading through what you linked,(lets keep the all caps turned off)
Koussa is 'reported' to be in London. That doesn't mean confirmed, and that kind of info is already in the OP.
as to CIA involvement again is heresay. i can't find anything other than SKY news that says it, and it also says 'it is said' which is media speak for 'rumour' not 'fact'
i'll add that bit in to the OP as a rumour, but lets keep it in perspective.
I wouldn't rule it out as JTF-2 is confirmed as in Libya, and the SAS is rumoured to be there.
Standered British Military tactic when using guided airstrikes is the deployment of SAS, SBS or SRS units to guide in precsion strikes on High-Value Targets (HVTs) so I'm assuming theres SAS or one of the British Military's other Special Forces Units in Country.
indeed, officially JTF-2 is there as a security force for Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, however the rebels have been reporting that they are trying to build a command structure for the rebels and have been actively marking targets for the coalition.
there are 250 of them there, and that is the largest number of them ever to be confirmed as in one place, let alone as operating, not so surprising as they have only ever had 3 confirmed operations, even though they are NATO's first response anti terror group.
250? Wow. Impressive. First time our the Canadian Parliament has ever truly commited the entire JTF-2 to anything. I know I guy in JTF-2, I may ask him about this.
Any news on Task Force Arrowhead or CSOR being deployed? no word on CSOR, or Arrowhead SOFCOM has been really quiet. they even kept the JTF-2 news down, and has only been mentioned once by Harper in a live interview.
we don't even know how many people are actually in JTF-2, could be only 300, or as many as 3000. I know 3 people who are in or once were JTF-2 members, and they are super tight lipped about this. then again, they can't even tell you when they go on vacation
According to my friend, most unit members have silent rule of "don't ask and definatly do not tell" rule, so the tight lip-ness is to be expected, especially when concerning an active deployment, info will be hard to come by, though I would expect to see at least a few members of CSOR and Arrowhead deployed, as CSOR is described as "a cross between the US Army Rangers and the Green Berets", meaning both full combat and low key missions are on the table for them, while Arrowhead is technically supposed to take "JTF-2's place as Canada's out of country anti-terror unit and is trained to respond to and assist in anti-terror operations around the world", essentially saying that Arrowhead will be used in places like Libya or Afghan while JTF-2 will be re-purposed into a more "at home", more regional anti-terror unit.
Edit: Wikipedia and several Canadian news sources (A news, CTV and CBC) have estimated JTF-2 member strength to hover around 450 to 650 memebers from all Canadian Forces Branches.
[Edited on 03.30.2011 2:26 PM PDT]