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cimmaron: my wager would be, were i a wagering feller, that the folk in situ have very dense communication networks (informal in particular) and that if a local is killed by an american or other nato patrol, everyone knows about it pretty much straight away. and i imagine that if the area is question is one in which the taliban has support, so operates, so draws from in terms of personnel, they would have known pretty much straight away as well. you can also assume that the command structure in which the hypothetical patrol was inserted knew pretty much right away, as did everyone connected socially to everyone in that hypothetical patrol. so pretty much everyone would know in the effected place pretty much right away.
the people who don't know such things are folk like you and i.
that's in part because we're being managed. consent control. which is way democratic.
it's like you and i are the enemy in a war that's the marketing of war.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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