Category Archives: Don’t be THAT guy

Running guns to Canada

The Canadian border police bagged this Glock, BHP and Ruger from a single would-be smuggler. Big to enclicken!

Canada, which all but bans handguns, has a handgun crime problem. (Unpossible! But true). So one thing they’re doing is, while never being quite as unpleasant to ordinary travelers as the US Customs and Border Patrol is to those going the other way, cracking down on people they suspect might be running guns.

Like the lady they bagged with these three handguns (and two spare mags, which are separate felony charges in the land that sees itself as evolved and nonviolent, but produces about 100% of hockey high-sticking “enforcers.”

One interesting thing is that the three guns here are not the usual criminal junk, but a compact Glock, a Browning Hi-Power in good condition, and a Ruger 9mm. One would think these guns might bring a premium on the black market, or they might just be what the smuggler could get her hands on (or her organization could, because it’s highly unlikely she’s working solo on this).

Of course, where something is widely available on one side of a border and contraband across it, price differentials are commanded to arise by the law of supply and demand, and border-crossing arbitrageurs are certain to appear. The Canadians’ answer to the problem is for the USA to adopt Canada’s laws, including absence of 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Amendment protections for the citizen. We might disagree and even suggest another approach, but Canadians as a whole are not very interested in what we think. They’re rather proud of the fact that they’re a separate country, despite the wide swathes of stone stupid Americans who don’t know that fact, and resentful of the impact of America’s much larger, dominant culture on their own.

A .25 Ortgies bought illegally by Star reporters with ATF’s blessing.

There is an ongoing study in the Toronto Star of gun smuggling, including an undercover buy by Star reporters Jayme Poisson, David Bruser and photog Pawel Duwit; an American felony which has been blessed by the BATFE. ATF Special Agent Mark Jackson assisted the lawbreaking reporters as part of ATF’s ongoing lobbying effort for Canadian-like laws in the USA. (459 of the 757 guns traced in Ontario in 2011 traced to the USA. The other 298 were presumably of Canadian or third-country origin. An additional 142 guns were not traced, the Star says because of old age or missing serials, but some may have had suspected Canadian origin as well). This 90-year-old, pitted Ortgies would probably also have been untraceable.

Poisson and David Bruser of the Star note that a $200 gun in the USA is a $2000 gun to Toronto criminals. Toronto cops seize 2-3 guns a day from criminals. The reporters, with the cooperation of the ATF’s investigative resources, traced a number of guns to purchases or thefts in the USA, and in one case called up the theft victim, abusing him on the phone and blaming him for a Toronto schoolyard shooting.

Canada’s Border Services Agency routinely seizes firearms (here are some examples from January) and arrests the owners, who may wind up in Canadian prison for the next three years. They have a toll-free snictch line for informers to turn in gun owners. They have procedures for firearms import (an awful lot of Americans go hunting in the less gun-shy Canadian West) and allow free importation of black-powder antiques and replicas. But a description of controlled and prohibited weaponry is daunting, and describes a large quantity of what we have here in the armory, not to mention normal martial arts gimmicks, as “prohibited”. Nunchaku, a prohibited weapon? Blowguns? Yes, in Canada.

There’s even a provision for disarming the bodyguards of foreign heads of state in some circumstances. Because, after all, there are no handguns in Canada.

Bottom line: if you’re a gun guy, you’re not wanted in Canada, Eh. But you can definitely whack people with a hockey stick!

Chris Dorner’s gun, and other Dorner news

The revolver Dorner pawned, an Astra .38 imported by Century.

The thoroughly dead fired-cop cop-killer is still making news. Three items came to our attention, and we happened to read them in a paper from way the hell across the country from the scenes of his crimes, to wit: the New York Daily News:

Item: a gun he pawned in Las Vegas for $50, pre-notoriety, has been auctioned for $4,000. ($4,025, to be pedantic). The gun was a cheesy Astra .38 revolver, and the pawnbroker was optimistic to give him $50 for such a second-string-brand, out-of-fashion-caliber gun. But his optimism is rewarded on Gunbroker. Was the buyer one of those guys who bids on, say, Bonnie and Clyde guns? Or one of Dorner’s ate-up fans? Yeah, that possibility is sick, but not as sick as Dornermania gets.

Shop’s copy of Dorner’s receipt.

Anyway, the seller offered to give the money to the family members of two cops killed by the angry ex-cop, but the families angrily refused, and one of the police departments excoriated the seller as “ghoulish.” Jeez, no good deed goes unpunished in this world. What was a pawnbroker — last time I checked, not someone bound by a particularly rigid code of ethics — supposed to do with a gun that turned out to be owned by a celebrity, even an evil one? Exercise for the reader: someone finds out his grandfather left him a GI bringback that turns out to be documented personal property of a top Nazi, say Göring. What’s he supposed to do with it? Exercise II: the dealer learns the gun was Göring’s after buying it. Should he melt it down because Göring was a monster only suicide saved from the gallows, a committed Nazi, one-time chief of the Gestapo?

Close-up shows finish flaked off grips and trigger with pitting. The gun was in rough shape.

Does the gun have more than mere ownership history with an evil man? Is it tainted by evil? Does it bear the mark of Cain, and no one should possess it just as all were enjoined to shun, but not harm, Cain himself?

Back to the gun itself — it was in lousy condition. This may have been because it was a Century import, or it may have been Dorner’s doing.

Several of his other guns were destroyed in the fire that killed him, or seized by police and will be destroyed. This Astra is likely to be the only gun associated with this outlaw ever to see the private market.

Item: the LAPD’s inept response hits the city’s bottom line to the tune of $4.2 million.

LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles reached a $4.2 million settlement on injury claims by two women who were injured when police mistakenly opened fire on them during the manhunt for disgruntled ex-cop Christopher Dorner, an official said Tuesday.

Margie Carranza and her 71-year-old mother, Emma Hernandez, were delivering papers around 5 a.m. on Feb. 7 when LAPD officers blasted at least 100 rounds at their pickup.

There’s a couple of ways to calculate this. Since the LAPD spray-an’-pray’d 100-plus rounds at the two small Filipinas they mistook for the single large shaven-headed black dude, you could say it’s about $40,000 per negligent discharge. But since only about a quarter of them struck the wrong-make-size-color-and-plate truck, you could say it’s $10,000 per reasonably close hit (no one knows where the 80 or 90 other rounds went, but it says something about LAPD marksmanship). But since only one round struck one of the wrong-number-color-sex-and-size “suspects,” you could say it’s a full $4-million-plus per round on target.

We guess LAPD still considers it cheaper than training their cops.

Of course, the customers on Carranza’s and Hernandez’s paper route who didn’t get their LA Times that day haven’t filed their suits yet, and the other victim of mistaken identity will also run up the score. Of course, nobody’s blaming the real ultimate cause of this, Dorner. You can’t sue a penniless dead crook; well, you can, but you can’t collect, and that’s how the plaintiff’s bar rolls.

This, too, is pretty sick, but we still haven’t hit the Dornermania apogee yet.

Let’s keep the focus where it belongs: on four innocents murdered by a no-good sack of excrement.

Item: a kind of Dorner Fan Club met for a rally in LA. After he was cold, dead, and in the ground. Cause it’s all LAPD’s fault, you know.

That’s the rock bottom of Dornermania. Lord love a duck. The image caption (right) expresses what we think of this cretin, and the even worse people who celebrate him. We don’t want to hear that “he had a point” because “this, that and the other thing is wrong with LAPD/PDs in general/life, the universe, and everything.” That’s bullshit. Any point you ever had is erased forever when you whack some innocent person to send your message.

If you want to send a message, go to an internet café. If you want to kill people, Chris Dorner fans, start with yourselves. This has been a public service message.

Is this cruel and unusual punishment?

When they finally had custody of jihad bomber Dzhokar Tsarnayev, they hauled his wounded carcass to the hospital.

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, to be precise — founded as a Jewish charity many score years ago.

We bet he hates that. Here’s hoping all his doctors and nurses happen to be named something like Epstein, Goldberg or Shapiro. He’d really hate that. And we wouldn’t mind if the FBI agents who question him are named Saperstein and Greenspan, too.

On the other hand, there may be something profound going on here. Bloodthirsty Moslem terrorist radicalized in the local mosque murders a bunch of people; humanitarian Jewish donors enable doctors to repair people — even the terrorist. (The surgeon who made his best effort to save mortally wounded Tamerlan Tsarnyev also had a stereotypically Jewish name).

If you’re picking religions, doesn’t one of these sets of actions seem a little better aligned with the concept of a divine and benevolent Creator?

One small step for a terrorist, one giant irony for English speakers

Behold, the hidey-hole of Chechen-American terrorist, Djokar Tsaryev. He’s the dark shadoow visible on this reversed thermal image.

One thing that has not been widely covered: the name of the boat, a typical New Englander’s pleasure boat (a 20′ inboard cuddy-cabin powerboat).

Its owner named it the Slipaway II.

Good thing Tsaryev didn’t.

Now, spring cleanup of the boat will involve a little more work tham the owner had planned. He’s got to get it out of evidence, and then along with all the usual make-ready stuff, he has to clean up the blood and guts, and plug a dozen or so bullet holes. Fortunately fiberglass is really easy to work with.

Or he might just want to put it on eBay. Maybe some collector of terrorism artifacts will want it, and he can apply the money to a grander, sleeker Slipaway III.

Happy sailing.

Update:

We’ve been asked about whether the labels on the image indicate that this was from an armed Predator drone. Apparently conspiracy theorists are already shopping that idea around. Sorry to disappoint them (well, not really) but that’s not it at all. We don’t know the source of the image, but our best guess is that it’s from the Massachusetts State Police’s helicopter, which last we knew was a EC 135 based not far from Watertown, in Bedford.

The 1935 feet is probably altitude. Slant Range (590m) is the exact distance to the aiming mark in the center of the image. (Why different units? In America, air traffic control wants altitudes in feet above mean sea level. But most measuring and aiming gadgets, and most horizontal measures, by the military and, to a lesser extent, police tend to be in the metric system). “LRF Armed” means that the laser rangefinder is enabled, and “LP Armed” means that a laser pointer (presumably an infrared one, invisible to the naked eye) is also enabled. The LRF is how we get the 590m slant range to the target. The State Police helicopter is unarmed, except for this nifty camera and an i, and of course sworn officers aboard it have their personal weapons.

Micturating Marine to stand trial

One of the four Marines who rocketed to YouTube stardom with a video showing them urinating on fresh Taliban corpses is going to face a special court martial. His former Company XO may also stand trial, although the decision has not been made in the officer’s case. Stars and Stripes has the story.

Sgt. Robert Richards, 27, is charged with dereliction of duty, violating a general order and conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline. He underwent an Article 32 hearing on the charges in March and is one of four Marines in a video of the July 2011 incident that was posted on YouTube in 2012.

Another Marine, Capt. James V. Clement, also faced an Article 32 hearing recently, though no reporters were informed about the hearing. Clement and three other Marines took the stand.

via Marine accused of urinating on Taliban bodies will face court-martial – News – Stripes.

Oddly enough, the charges are all about whizzing on the enemy — not about being so earth-shatteringly stupid as to video and publish the event. But the fix may well be in for this young man. The command wants to Send the Message that we don’t relieve ourselves on the enemy dead, no matter how relieved we might be that the enemy are dead in the first place. When the command Sends a Message using a Special Court-Martial rather than any of the fancy commo gear it has access to, that usually means that the accused is getting a Trial by Red Queen: “Sentence first, then the verdict!”

But it’s very important that the enemy are not pissed on. Because if they get pissed on, they get pissed off, and then they might blow up a sporting event or something.

Have you seen this rifle?

This Philadelphia Police Department hasn’t, recently (perhaps not this exact rifle, but a select-fire M16A1 exactly like it).

Which is a problem because it’s supposed to be in their academy’s arms room. The department has over a thousand of the rilfles (~~1,386 to be exact.~~.. well, 1,385 for now). They were presented by the Department of Defense, and the PD is slowly converting them to semi-auto — it doesn’t train its officers to use, or allow them to patrol with, full-auto weapons. But they came up short one of the unconverted guns on a recent inventory, something they do very occasionally (inventory, not come up short — updated for clarity).

Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who’s always willing to talk to the press about how irresponsible private gun owners are, is a bundle of quivering excuses, one of which is that his department hasn’t previously lost a weapon on his five year watch. He seems to have forgotten the series the Daliy News ran in 2011 recounting at least eight missing weapons, some of which were automatic weapons. The suspected thieves included department officers. The files for missing weapons were kept isolated in a cabinet with the computer label, “FUBAR storage.” The principal suspect was the stepson of a department big wheel; Ramsey reacted, alright, but only to punish the whistleblowers. The whistleblowers sued. (Maybe those links will jog the Commissioner’s memory?).

Now, it’s quite possible (indeed, it’s the most likely explanation) that someone miscounted, and no rifle is missing at all. If they’re really missing one, they don’t have a lot of leads. There was no real control of who had access to the arms room, and the inventories seem to be irregular, haphazard and partial. Until this month’s short inventory, the last complete one was in December, 2012, according to Ramsey.

Commissioner Ramsey and Lt. Testa (shown), former head of the Firearms Imvestigation Unit, are accused of a coverup of previous missing weapons.

The missing-rifle crisis caused the department to look at its weapons room physical security, and they found it pretty weak. They’ve since improved locks, alarms, and added video surveillance for the first time. They’re also going to take a full 100% inventory of department-owned weapons, also, apparently, for the first time.

For someone who grew up in the Army’s systematic and deep weapons inventory system, this is pretty puzzling. Yeah, it’s hard to get a good count when you’re all tired, and the weapons are worn and the serials half filled-in by arsenal refinishes, but you can’t call the arms room secure until you have a by-serial-number count from two officers or senior NCOs (E-7 and up) that agrees with your inventory. If every mess kit repair battalion in the National Guard can accomplish this at the end of every drill weekend, a bad count makes Philadelphia look pretty foolish.

On the bright side, even if the Department lost control of the weapon and it ended up in criminal hands, they’ve got to lose about 3,000 more to break the known record, held by the ATF’s southwestern region and Phoenix division, in conjunction with their good friends, the Sinaloa Cartel.

PS: honest, we’re not bashing cops here. They’re pretty much bashing themselves… read those links.

Ickle Bradley loses a procedural ruling (updated)

The squirrely little turncoat’s high-dollar Al-Qaeda lawyers lost another round of motions in the military court Wednesday. His lawyers were trying to exclude evidence that information Manning stole and released to the anti-American Wikileaks group wound up in the hands of no less an enemy than Osama his ownself.

What’s more, the testimony in court will be coming from one of the raid participants, who actually conducted the on-scene and forensic Sensitive Site Exploitation. He saw Manning’s documents with his own eyes, in the Abbotabad compound of the most wanted man on earth.

The government said the witness, presumably a Navy SEAL, collected digital evidence showing that an associate of bin Laden provided the Al Qaeda leader with documents Manning has acknowledged sending to the WikiLeaks website.

via Bin Laden raid member cleared to testify in WikiLeaks trial | Fox News.

The lawyers were hoping to exclude the SSE results and keep them away from the jury, so that they could argue in closing that Manning hadn’t, as he set out to do, actually aided the enemy. An essential part of proving the charge is showing that the information was both given to, and received by, the enemy. Their strategy was to get the evidence excluded and to pretend it never existed.

Um. They’re going to need a fallback strategy now. Fortunately for them, they’re being well paid by a strange alliance of terror sponsors and terror groupies. For the terror sponsors, it’s just the continuation of jihad by other means. For the groupies… who knows?

The article says that Manning said he leaked the stuff to expose American military “bloodlust.” Oh , he has no idea.

Update

Not everybody shares our contempt for Bwadwey. Crazy Uncle Ron Paul thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. So does the massively insecure sponsor of many self-praising sock puppets, “The Gleens” Greenwald.

We had to think about that for a minute, We ran down a list of past recipients that range from Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, for the “decent interval” agreement that cast millions into communist slavery; Rigoberta Menchu, for a fabricated autobiograph; the European Union last year, apparently because there is no Nobel Prize for Bankruptcy; Jimmah Carter, for his antisemitism (apparently the Norwegians that year were from the Nasionalsamling); Cordell Hull, another antisemite; Wangaari Maathai (sp?), exponent of the theory that HIV was created by whites to exterminate Africans; and the Number 1 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of all time, Palestinian terrorist (and billionaire!) Yasser Arafat.

So, we dunno. Maybe Manning is right for the Nobel Peace Prize.

A tale of two “heroes”

A lot of people are upset about a new Robert Redford film that celebrates the cop-killing terrorists of the Weather Underground. This guy. This guy (with copious links). This gal (who suggests an alternative document on Weathermen history). And this guy and gal, to wrap it up on video. And yeah, so are the nine kids whose fathers were murdered by a Weathermen cell during an armored-truck robbery. But glorifying scumbags is nothing new in the popular culture, and the vintage Weathermen so beloved of Medicare-vintage Boomers have plenty of modern-day analogues.

Modern Hero Number One: Chris Dorner

Dorner overseas in the Navy. Via Pat Dollard.

First, let’s hear from the fans of bad cop turned cop-killer and cop’s-daughter-killer, Chris Dorner. You may have forgotten this guy, since his 15 minutes of fame too place two months ago. He was such a bad cop that LAPD fired him (a nearly impossible undertaking, as any LAPD supervisor with a “problem child” will morosely tell you).

Buzzfeed (liberal) saw his admirers as bipartisan and mainstream. Breitbart.com (conservative) begged to differ. We have to ask, does everything have to be seen through a political prism? Dorner was a sick puppy. His “fans”? Sick puppies. Maybe even sicker than he. And nowhere did he have more fans, it seems, than in the media. Ink-stained (or pixelated, these days) wretches who are destined to write about people more interesting than they seem to have a lot of fantasies about sticking it to The Man.

CNN’s Brooke Baldwin was crushing on Dorner, Breitbart seemed to say in another post. The CNN story backs that assessment up.

He was Kathleen Miles’s of the Huffington Posts “Dark Knight”. She argued that the fans of cop-killer and cop’s-daughter-killer Dorner were on more solid ground than, say, the fans of James Holmes, the Aurora joker in the Joker get-up. (Yes, the stoopid is strong in Miles). Huffpo also noted in another article that there was a Dorner fan page on Facebook, and interviewed the besotted fan who set it up — we guess that’s a “newsmaker” these days. Lord love a duck, it’s still there.

Human Events, a conservative magazine, didn’t exactly jump on the bandwagon. They said it’s “not pleasant to see such a large number of people who view themselves as essential [sic] at war with the rest of American society.” The implication is that there are more, many more, of these loonies out there capable of rationalizing these criminals’ crimes just as the criminals themselves do.

Do we have to draw you a picture of the moral decay that must exist for someone to think that a creep like Dorner is a hero? But he’s not the only one.

Modern Hero Number Two, John Kiriakou

We’ve had a lot to say about felon and ex-CIA traitor John Kiriakou. Kiriakou’s case is reminiscent of another, older traitor, Jonathan Pollard. Pollard sold secrets — for money — to the Israelis. Some of those secrets were of no direct use to Eretz Yisroel, so they went on the block to US enemies, bringing Pollard’s handlers cash or debts of favors rendered, a rough form of currency in international intelligence circles. Unlike Pollard, Kiriakou dealt his secrets to the news media to slake his ego (it’s remotely possible he was paid, but the New York Times denies paying for scoops even when caught red-handed, so it could not be proven). The reporters handed him off to a string of lawyers and their agents, who were conducting targeting for al-Qaeda based on Kiriakou’s leaks.

Also unlike Pollard, Kiriakou has friends beyond his former handlers, the al-Qaeda bar; he went off to prison with a vast send-off bash funded by an inherited-wealth, never-worked-a-day zillionaire, and captured with dewy eyes by some young Duranty of the Washington Post:

Kiriakou, 48, seemed unbowed and almost content at the prospect of prison as he basked in the well wishes of about 100 supporters, who gathered for a posh send-off at the luxury hotel. The guests wore orange jumpsuits and other mock prison garb and serenaded Kiriakou with a reworked version of the protest anthem “Have You Been to Jail for Justice?”

“I’m proud of my career,” said Kiriakou, who lives in Arlington County. “I still love the CIA — crazy as that may sound. . . . I wear my conviction as a badge of honor.”

Kiriakou, who left the CIA in 2004, stepped into the limelight a few years later to confirm and describe in detail the harsh interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, that he said agency operatives employed. He was charged with several counts related to sharing sensitive information with reporters and pleaded guilty to a single count of disclosing a covert operative’s name. He was sentenced last month.

“My case was about torture,” he said. “The CIA never forgave me for exposing the torture program and saying it was U.S. government policy.”

The $20,000 farewell bash — open bar for two hours — was underwritten by Oakland, Calif.-based activist and heiress Naomi Pitcairn and co-hosted by Code Pink, the theatrical peace group.

Words fail. Lord love a duck.

The strange case of Eric Harroun

Eric Harroun is apparently an American of some unspecified Arab descent (we’re guessing Lebanese). He was recently arrested and charged with a Federal violation for fighting with an Al-Qaeda associated Syrian underground group. This affidavit explains (.pdf) how it happened, but SOFREP (which you really should be reading if you’re interested in US and world special operations) has the one-over-Harroun:

The recent arrest of Eric Hourran [sic] at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., has brought with it many questions from media outlets and the American public. Who is Eric Hourran, and why would an American choose to fight with an al-Qaeda associated group such as al-Nusra?

Recent reports estimate that their are hundreds of rebel groups fighting throughout the country of Syria - many of which want a free and democratic Syria after the destruction of the al-Assad regime. al-Nusra is not one of these groups. Hourran chose and was not forced to fight alongside al-Nusra at any point.

There were many paths that he could have taken to help the people of Syria, ‘unfortunately’ he will be spending the foreseeable future within the walls of a federal penitentiary.

via Eric Harroun: Not Our Soldier of Fortune | SOFREP.

We’re not as quick as SOFREP’s Isiah Burkhart to confine Harroun to crowbar motel, although that’s where he appears to be right now.

The one charge in the affidavit is utterly bogus. Weapon of Mass Destruction charges for an RPG? An RPG is a common-and-garden antitank weapon, with limited utility against personnel (more than limited if you have the right warheads, of course, but most guerillas worldwide have the common and garden variety PG-7 HEAT round). If an RPG is a WMD, so’s every LAW, AT-4, Javelin, mortar shell, and HEDP 25mm round any of us ever lit off. Most likely the FBI Special Agent who filed the affidavit just wanted to put a marker down and hold the guy, and by the time Harroun’s attorneys show up to file the motion, the Bureau or more likely DOJ will have amended charges. Membership in a designated terrorist group, for instance. (To be sure, that’s a harder charge to prove than “firing an RPG,” to which Harroun has admitted).

Speaking of Harroun’s attorney, who shows up for him will tell you if he’s really affiliated with Al-Qaeda or not. If it’s a Washington DC white-shoe firm, particularly Covington & Burling, that’s a strong indicator he’s Al-Q. They are believed do Al-Q terrorists “pro bono” and get paid off with “no-show” legal work for Gulf Arab terrorist financiers. If he winds up depending on a DC public defender to lose his case, that’s a solid indicator that, while he might be a jihadi, he isn’t al-Qaeda’s own.

There are some other interesting omissions in the Harroun story. He’s allegedly former Army, but apparently not a combat vet. It would be interesting to see his records. His story of how he lost his passport also seems suspicious. A US passport is a highly coveted thing in certain circles — including the jihadi circles where Harroun was hanging out.

In his statements as reported by the FBI, he only once makes an admission (of anti-Semitism) that makes him seem likely for a jihadi. His other statements make him sound like a knucklehead seeking adventure.

He found it, just not what he was looking for.

Well, the future mini-Army needs fewer generals anyway

According to a wire story, a general commanding a CJTF (that was commanded by a colonel a few rotations ago… gives you another definition for “grade inflation”) was sacked for booze and sex. What booze and sex, we dunno; they’re not being specific.

Officials say Maj. Gen. Ralph Baker, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, was fired from his command last Thursday by Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, after an administrative review. Baker took over the task force, based in Djibouti, last May.

via Defense officials: Army general fired over alcohol, sexual misconduct charges | Fox News.

The general in question has appealed his firing to SecDef Chuck Hagel, who has his hands full right now figuring out how to carry out his boss’s wishes and surrender to North Korea, the same way the last Secretary and the same boss surrendered most of national missile defense in pursuing the time-tested strategy of unilateral disarmament. (Also called, plowing for the guys who kept their swords).

So Hagel may not get to Baker’s case for a while.

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