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The first time the militants were seen was when they appeared on the runway, weapons at the ready. "The [navy] men couldn't believe their eyes," says an official.
A number of officials listed to me their observations, which reinforced the conviction that they were being confronted with a totally different kind of militant, possibly hitherto unseen:
• Military formation: One injured sailor told an official that the attackers "moved and dressed like us". The militants moved in tactical military formation and spoke in military parlance. They spoke between themselves in Urdu, as well as
1. How many were caught alive
2. How many people were killed
3. Where is the US special ops helicopter tail stored
4. Who delivered them to the fences
5. What are the chinese engineers doing at the base
6. In these dangerous times, who leaves a 'weak' spot on defense un-defended
Originally posted by Skerrako
reply to post by Agit8dChop
1. How many were caught alive
2. How many people were killed
3. Where is the US special ops helicopter tail stored
4. Who delivered them to the fences
5. What are the chinese engineers doing at the base
6. In these dangerous times, who leaves a 'weak' spot on defense un-defended
1.0
2.11
3. Returned to the U.S. today
4. unknown so far, probably 'terrorist' buddies
5. Great question, let me know when you find out
6. They cut through a fence
How did I do?
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
Read the BBC article. Clearly these militants displayed a high degree of training and efficiency to be able to infiltrate a military base and do some serious damage. Definitely not your run of the mill "terrorists".
In Zayed Military City, in a training camp in a desert area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a secret army is in the making.
This secret army of mercenaries, which is slated to be used not only in the Emirates but throughout the Middle East and North Africa, was created by Erik Prince, a former member of Navy SEALS who in 1997 founded Blackwater, the largest private military company on contract to the Pentagon in Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones. The company, which in 2009 was renamed Xe Services (also in order to escape legal action for the massacres of civilians in Iraq), owns a large training camp in the United States, where more than fifty thousand "specialists of war and repression" have been trained. And Xe is in the process of opening other training camps.
In several countries including South Africa and Colombia, they started recruiting mercenaries to form an initial battalion of 800 men. They are trained in the UAE by U.S., British, French and German military professionals, with a background in special forces and the secret services. The trainers are paid 200-300 thousand dollars a year, while the recruits receive about $150 a day.
Once the efficiency of the battalion has been tested in a "real action" scenario, Abu Dhabi will fund with billions of dollars a whole brigade of several thousand mercenaries. It is expected to set up a large training camp in the UAE, similar to that operating in the United States.