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an alternative explanation

In Reply to: I'll keep an eye open. posted by Gideon Hallett on June 08, 1998 at 17:26:01:

: : Well, one thing led to another, I'm sure, and thus this Operation Tailwind makes sense to me as a sort of revenge for "fragging." Doesn't it? I'm sure the top brass found out about "fragging" sooner or later, and planned a few countermeasures to secure the "loyalty" of the troops...

My mistake: it was presumptuous of me to assume that they would gas US troops as revenge. It just occurred to me that there's an alternative explanation that makes perfect sense, and I should have read the articles more carefully. If this mission occurred in Laos, it's likely that these were US secret agents doing their jobs, and that they were killed simply for knowing too much about CIA drug-dealing operations in Laos. Thus calling them "deserters" could simply have beena ruse for business as usual.

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