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They were just acting on a tip.
Heard there was TP.
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CARACAS, May 28 (Reuters) - Two U.S. Embassy employees in Venezuela were injured on Tuesday in a shooting at a well-known Caracas strip club, police said.
Officers heard shots around 4:25 a.m. (0855 GMT) at the Antonella 2012 club, better known as "Angelus" in the upscale Chacao district, a police source told Reuters.
One of the embassy employees, military attache Roberto Ezequiel Rosas, was shot in the leg after a fight between club patrons, according to a police report seen by Reuters and the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The second embassy official was shot in the stomach but did not notice the injury until arriving home, the source said.
In a terse statement, the embassy confirmed an "incident," but gave few details.
"We can confirm that two members of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas were injured during an incident early this morning. Medical staff informs us that their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening," the statement said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Reuters reporters saw police detective vehicles parked near the club, which is popular among foreigners. Officials walked in and out of the club without answering questions.
Venezuela has one of the world's highest homicide rates. Violent crime occurs primarily in the country's poor slums, but in recent years, assaults and shootings have become more common in well-to-do areas of the city.
Last week, President Nicolas Maduro launched a security drive that puts soldiers on the streets of the capital. About 20 security initiatives have been implemented since 1999.
The Venezuela shooting may revive memories of an incident that embarrassed U.S. officials in Colombia last year. In that case, Secret Service agents helping to protect President Barack Obama were sent home for involvement with prostitutes.
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CARACAS, May 28 (Reuters) - Two U.S. Embassy employees in Venezuela were injured on Tuesday in a shooting at a well-known Caracas strip club, police said.
Officers heard shots around 4:25 a.m. (0855 GMT) at the Antonella 2012 club, better known as "Angelus" in the upscale Chacao district, a police source told Reuters.
One of the embassy employees, military attache Roberto Ezequiel Rosas, was shot in the leg after a fight between club patrons, according to a police report seen by Reuters and the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The second embassy official was shot in the stomach but did not notice the injury until arriving home, the source said.
In a terse statement, the embassy confirmed an "incident," but gave few details.
"We can confirm that two members of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas were injured during an incident early this morning. Medical staff informs us that their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening," the statement said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Reuters reporters saw police detective vehicles parked near the club, which is popular among foreigners. Officials walked in and out of the club without answering questions.
Venezuela has one of the world's highest homicide rates. Violent crime occurs primarily in the country's poor slums, but in recent years, assaults and shootings have become more common in well-to-do areas of the city.
Last week, President Nicolas Maduro launched a security drive that puts soldiers on the streets of the capital. About 20 security initiatives have been implemented since 1999.
The Venezuela shooting may revive memories of an incident that embarrassed U.S. officials in Colombia last year. In that case, Secret Service agents helping to protect President Barack Obama were sent home for involvement with prostitutes.
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Military attaches work for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It's existence is not classified, similar to State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. I suppose it's possible that an agency that dare not speak its name might use a military attache position as light cover, but I can't see why. In fairness, they could have been working. (At least that's what they will tell their spouses) Plenty of open and covert intelligence gathering takes place in restaurants, bars, cocktail parties and clubs.
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BTW you can get shot in the stomach and not know?
And actually, I had assumed these guys were working if they were, in fact, spooks at a strip club at 4 a.m.
There's no issue here, just Steven wanting to have more fun at the expense of a dead man.
I just found it funny that the embassy's spies essentialy outed themselves by getting shot. And as to getting shot in the gut (I assume tehy did not really mean "stomach" since a shot to the actual stomach would cause all sorts of problems) and not noticing, I have read that a small caliber round striking fleshy tissue and passing through can feel like a very hard punch, with the victim sometimes not realizing he's been shot until he notices the blood flowing. But it's not like I have personal experience or anything.
Adrenalin can do funny things as can other modifiers like meth or cocaine
Bambi's real name and phone number are intel.
What you describe would be a "milgroup", short for Military Assistance Group, also overt and above board, and the practice of foreign colonels from "friendly" states attending our war colleges. When I lived in Carlisle, PA it was easy to rent your house for a good fee because of the annual influx of U.S. and foreign officers assigned for the one year program at the Army War College. It's and interesting program focused both on strategy and geopolitics. Best of all, the LeTort Spring Run goes through it for a few hundred yards and usually holds a few good fish. Before 9/ll you just parked and walked down to the stream. Now you have to go through modest gate security checks, but you still can fish there.
There is a small museum in the powder magazine built by Hessian POWs, and an Indian cemetery dating from when it was the Carlisle Indian School, made famous by "Pop" Warner and Jim Thorpe. Thorpe and Ike (a West Point cadet) played football and Ike broke his arm. I do not not think Thorpe was directly responsible.
The Carlisle Indian School first played collegiate football against Yale in 1896. Soon its teams were regularly playing Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Lehigh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Princeton. By 1897, Carlisle football was known throughout the country, a fame that garnered financial support. Baseball, track, and lacrosse teams were also well known. Some athletes were celebrated by the popular media, including Jim Thorpe, Charles 'Chief' Bender and Louis Tewanima -- and coaches and trainers, "Pop" Warner, Vance McCormick, and Wallace Denny.
Jim Thorpe, the school's greatest football and track and field athlete, won the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Because of the accomplishments of Thorpe and long-distance runner Tewanima, the Indian School accumulated more points at the1912 Olympics than any college or university in the United States.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/
George Will
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A few decades ago the Sunnyside would have been the best place to eat near a turnpike exit for a long way in either direction. It is across from the War College on US11, the road the Turpike exits to.
I almost bought a house that formerly was a small Civil War era hotel and had later housed the Fish Bar, the traditional hang-out of the LeTort crowd such as Charlie Fox, Vince Marinaro, Ed Shenk etc. Just before I could put in an offer a bidding war erupted between Dickinson parents from NY and DC, pushing it way above my price point.
If you read Ed Shenk's book he has a chapter about the Fish Bar.
George Will
James died?
Diners and a certain someone's projection of his own **** aside, no issue...except yesterday's other attempts at starting a thread were so lame, I came close to asking about everyone's favorite 5 weight.