German Intelligence and the CIA supported Al Qaeda sponsored Terrorists in Kosovo

[HAL 9000 96]

If this guy smuggled weapons out of the US, why is he still in the country?

I thought Homeland Security could strip someone of their immigration privileges (including naturalised citizenship) if it turned out that they'd lied or provided false information on an earlier application.

How does gun-running not violate every precedent for securing immigration benefits (not to mention that the guy entered the country illegally to begin with).

An illegal alien!!!! Heeeeeeeeeeell no!! Now I'm really mad!

About the illegal entry, or the arms dealing?

Well that was sarcasm.

Yeah the guy probably, just probably, should have been deported instantly given his criminal gun running habit.

maybe he was in tight with the aclu.

I don't think so. Remember the ACLU is often characterized as having Communist sympathies- which means they couldn't support a Kosovar due to the Russian support of the Serbs.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Sinn Fein (political wing of the IRA) infamously made frequent trans-Atlantic fundraising trips during the 90's. I doubt this is much different - except how close this man's benefactors would be to this man's *crimes*

[Peikko 1,575]

What it tells us, is that the 'big nations' support the aspirations of the teency nations only if they correspond with something that is also in the best interests of the 'big nations' and that these 'best interests' can change, and often do. Which is not exactly news to anyone now is it?

What is sad is that the UN was put in place to monitor the activities of the stronger nations and try to ensure some modicum of 'fair play' whatever that might mean but sadly the support for the UN is lukewarm to downright frigid. It's no surprise who gains by the downplay of the UN either.

None of this is simple. There is nothing simple about slicing up the world into pieces that are 'owned' by one group or another and it is very difficult to assign any fairness to most of it.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

If this guy smuggled weapons out of the US, why is he still in the country?

I thought Homeland Security could strip someone of their immigration privileges (including naturalised citizenship) if it turned out that they'd lied or provided false information on an earlier application.

How does gun-running not violate every precedent for securing immigration benefits (not to mention that the guy entered the country illegally to begin with).

An illegal alien!!!! Heeeeeeeeeeell no!! Now I'm really mad!

About the illegal entry, or the arms dealing?

Well that was sarcasm.

Yeah the guy probably, just probably, should have been deported instantly given his criminal gun running habit.

maybe he was in tight with the aclu.

I don't think so. Remember the ACLU is often characterized as having Communist sympathies- which means they couldn't support a Kosovar due to the Russian support of the Serbs.

maybe he lied.

[HAL 9000 96]

Sinn Fein (political wing of the IRA) infamously made frequent trans-Atlantic fundraising trips during the 90's. I doubt this is much different - except how close this man's benefactors would be to this man's *crimes*

I also remember hearing that the actual IRA got quite a lot of funds from Boston's Irish pubs.

If this guy smuggled weapons out of the US, why is he still in the country?

I thought Homeland Security could strip someone of their immigration privileges (including naturalised citizenship) if it turned out that they'd lied or provided false information on an earlier application.

How does gun-running not violate every precedent for securing immigration benefits (not to mention that the guy entered the country illegally to begin with).

An illegal alien!!!! Heeeeeeeeeeell no!! Now I'm really mad!

About the illegal entry, or the arms dealing?

Well that was sarcasm.

Yeah the guy probably, just probably, should have been deported instantly given his criminal gun running habit.

maybe he was in tight with the aclu.

I don't think so. Remember the ACLU is often characterized as having Communist sympathies- which means they couldn't support a Kosovar due to the Russian support of the Serbs.

maybe he lied.

Possibly. Or maybe we let it slide.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Sinn Fein (political wing of the IRA) infamously made frequent trans-Atlantic fundraising trips during the 90's. I doubt this is much different - except how close this man's benefactors would be to this man's *crimes*

OMFG not the IRA again!!! they're everywhere ZOMG!!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Sinn Fein (political wing of the IRA) infamously made frequent trans-Atlantic fundraising trips during the 90's. I doubt this is much different - except how close this man's benefactors would be to this man's *crimes*

OMFG not the IRA again!!! they're everywhere ZOMG!!

Makes a change from that "religion of peace" tosh we keep getting our ears bent about.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Sinn Fein (political wing of the IRA) infamously made frequent trans-Atlantic fundraising trips during the 90's. I doubt this is much different - except how close this man's benefactors would be to this man's *crimes*

OMFG not the IRA again!!! they're everywhere ZOMG!!

Makes a change from that "religion of peace" tosh we keep getting our ears bent about.

That it does.