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March 13, 2007
Shadow Wolves
A U.S. Customs Service tracker unit recruited from amongst the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache are off to Afghanistan (via Rantburg).
In recent years, members of the Shadow Wolves have mainly tracked smugglers along the US border with Mexico. But the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan and the US military's failure to hunt down Osama bin Laden - still at large on his 50th birthday on Saturday - has prompted the Pentagon to requisition them.
US Defence Secretary Robert M.Gates said last month: "If I were Osama bin Laden, I'd keep looking over my shoulder."
US Defence Secretary Robert M.Gates said last month: "If I were Osama bin Laden, I'd keep looking over my shoulder."
A more detailed consideration of the Shadow Wolves may be found at Smithsonian Magazine.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 13, 2007 07:41 AM
