Reply #18: Were they really even mercenaries?They call it "cover," in the spy trade. [View All]

[patcox2]

This is sounding odder and odder. You have to ask at some point, were they even "private security" or "mercenaries?" Or were they CIA? The US government would never admit that four CIA agents were killed in the middle of some covert action, thats pretty much a given. And all CIA agents have some ostensible "cover" job; sometimes they are in the military, more often they work for company that would have some reason to be where they are. And if they are heavily armed and running around through the hotbed of anti-american sentiment, and they get killed, and the government needs to deny its involvement, then "private security" is probably the only plausible cover they could come up with.

Its pure, irresponsible speculation, of course, but it would explain our massive response. After all, Lidice was in response to the attempt to assasinate Hitler, you don't level a town over private security guards, you only level a town when its one of your own.