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What's really sad is that this guy is going to learn really fast that he's now in a sphere where the rules simply don't apply.

He's put himself in play and he's going to learn very quickly that he has few friends where a nation considers the information in his brain essential to their national security.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Flight-Falcon-Manhunt-Americas/dp/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman




Yeah, as seen from far away, Latin America is just CIA's backyard, and as far as I know they have no restrain there.


You took the words right out of my mouth.

Remember that the Russians killed Litvinenko in the middle of Mayfair, London, UK.

The Israelis killed Mahmoud Hamshari in Paris.

Remember that these were all nuclear nations.

I'll leave the research of any possible US involvements as an exercise to the reader.


These sort of tricks are precisely why Snowden went public.


Litvinenko was pretty public IIRC. Still dead. Still radioactive.


Nobody said it was 100% effective.


They may show no restraint, but there's also a number of these countries that are experienced at countering the CIA after decades of interference and that now have governments that are either openly anti-US or extremely wary of US interference.


But the information isn't just in his head. And revenge-killing might make more information available through some dead man's switch, especially now that wikileaks is involved




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