Yep iâve been thinking that too. Dubai in particular is full of westerners and would create a fair bit of publicity and uproar for them were they to fly a plane into a skyscraper or something. I imagine Dubai would be a very easy target for these guys too when you compare what they accomplished in New York. 1. It is nearby. 2. Itâs the busiest place in the world for planes flying in and out of and 3. I guess they would be caught off guard. I assume Abu Dhabi wouldnât have the same number of westerners as Dubai but still a credible target.
So whatâs stopping them and is there much chance something could happen? The problem is the gulf states are funding ISIS so i suppose theyâd be biting the hand that feeds them.
There are going to be three powers in the ME, Israel obviously, Saudi, and Iran with Russian backing. The Saudis are serious about diversifying out of oil, itâs just that itâs almost all military. A right tinderbox.
Well they gave one to Kissinger. The difference being that everyone knows Kissinger is/was a bloodthirsty cunt. Obama, like many hawkish democrats is unlikely to be outed as such. The Democrats have no incentive to do so, and the Republicans dare not suggest a liberal president was too tough.
Some of the stuff Greenwald and Scahill have revealed is terrifying, especially the extent to which the NSA is now using metadata to come up with targets. Creating models of phone and pc usage and using fit with that, and that alone, to approve missile strikes.
"The source underscored the unreliability of metadata, most often from phone and computer communications intercepts. These sources of information, identified by so-called selectors such as a phone number or email address, are the primary tools used by the military to find, fix, and finish its targets. âIt requires an enormous amount of faith in the technology that youâre using,â the source said. âThereâs countless instances where Iâve come across intelligence that was faulty.â This, he said, is a primary factor in the killing of civilians.
⌠between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse."
You couldnât make it up.