US Military Terror Plot

[Al B. Sure!]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/military-terror-plot-murd_n_1833435.html?fb_action_ids=516183891732419&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=message&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday.

Pauley said Aguigui funded the militia using $500,000 in insurance and benefit payments from the death of his pregnant wife a year ago. Aguigui was not charged in his wife's death, but Pauley told the judge her death was "highly suspicious."

She said Aguigui used the money to buy $87,000 worth of semiautomatic assault rifles, other guns and bomb components that were recovered from the accused soldiers' homes and from a storage locker. He also used the insurance payments to buy land for his militia group in Washington state, Pauley said.

[H Tower]

That's not terrorism, that's protecting themselves from terrorism. Terrorism is only performed by muslims

[Hauldren Collider]

You'll find that nobody really considers that to be true. I don't remember anyone ever saying the Oklahoma City bombing was anything but terrorism.

[H Tower]

I didn't think anyone would take me seriously

[Hauldren Collider]

Well, that kind of joke is only funny if it has a kernel of truth to it...

[kentonio]

Funny the way these guys aren't being charged with terrorism or treason charges then, if theres no kernel of truth to it.

[kittenOFchaos]

Perfect recruits for clearing minefields.

[Dr Strangelove]

Sorry, but minefields have been banned by the UN.

[kittenOFchaos]

Sorry, but minefields have been banned by the UN.

That doesn't mean that minefields have gone away. There are still extensive minefields from WW2 left in N.Africa. The border between North and South Korea is still heavily mined and the Russians didn't bother clearing up their minefields in Afghanistan.

These guys can still be useful!

[H Tower]

edit: x-post

Too bad that the U.S. Cuba, Russia, China, India, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Morrocco, Somalia, Pakistan, Syria, Israel, Kazakstan, Mongolia, Taiwan Uzbekhistan and others still use land mines then. 37 countries still use them, and plenty more countries still have land mines in the ground waiting to be cleared. I'd say there is plenty of need for land mine clearing.

[Wezil]

That's an impressive list of upstanding nations.

[Hauldren Collider]

When was the last time the US used land mines?

[kentonio]

1991 Gulf War for anti-personnel mines by the looks of it. Although you've said you won't lay persistent mines any more (post-2010) you reserve the right to use 'smart' mines and suchlike.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...71D6F020110214

[H Tower]

1991 Gulf War for anti-personnel mines by the looks of it. Although you've said you won't lay persistent mines any more (post-2010) you reserve the right to use 'smart' mines and suchlike.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...71D6F020110214

According to your article the last U.S. persistent minefield was deactivated in 1999, previously guarding Guantanamo in Cuba.

[kentonio]

According to your article the last U.S. persistent minefield was deactivated in 1999, previously guarding Guantanamo in Cuba.

That's wierd, further down it says..

The United States is not known to have used anti-personnel landmines since the 1991 Gulf War and abides by many provisions of the treaty.