Absolutely.

News media in general are not great at accurate reporting of complex events in war zones thousands of miles away.

All we really know right now is that the CIA has stated he was affiliated with a "partner force". The CIA had lots of different kinds of relationships with lots of different partners in Afghanistan.

The source in that article for the claim that he was in 03 is AfghanEvac, who are almost certainly relying on NYTimes reporting that's based on a single anonymous and very sketchy source. He could well have been in 03 (which was *not* an "elite counterterrorism unit"), but this isn't reliable info.

Lots of people are making all sorts of assumptions about Lakanwal based on a tiny amount of information. Can we try not to do that?

It's plausible that the CIA trained him, but there's nowhere near enough information to even begin guessing if that's what happened.

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I want to say "case in point", but I have no idea which rich people this might make happy. Maybe I just lack her genius for seeing it.

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You say that now, but just wait until the French and Swiss go ballistic over the inclusion of Sudanese cheese pastries.

(Actually a hand pie, despite the name, and genuinely delicious.)

You realize this will literally start wars over what is and is not considered a hand pastry/pie, right?

The further you get into the blob, the harder it is to find decency or irony. They're never completely gone, they just get scarce.

Question: does this mean whether the 2 count indictment was presented to the GJ is still relevant? If there never was an actual indictment at all, would 3288 still apply?

Or rather, its lack thereof.

I'm curious whether it has anything to do with this:
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