60-Minutes on Afghan bombings: Any bets on where the USAF secrete air war control center is?

[DemoTex]

My money is on McDill AFB in Tampa.

[Yupster]

1. It said it was a Middle Eastern country.

Bahrain? Kuwait?

[DemoTex]

2. I missed that. I've got a cousin who is a colonel in the USAF in Bahrain.

That kind of thing is right up his alley. I know that much of the two wars is run out of McDill.

[TomInTib]

3. My money is on Dubai

The Halliburton connection is no coincidence.

Dang, this one-handed typing is becoming wearisome.

[DemoTex]

4. One-handed typing?

Did I miss somthing?

[TomInTib]

8. Ugh...

The radial nerve in my right arm decided to go on vacation this past Tuesday morning.

I am a bit screwed for a while.

At least, I hope it is just for a while. For I am hopelessly right-handed.

But I am learning some new tricks.

[DemoTex]

9. Well, at least you are not pitching in the World Series tonight!

I went through the same sort of thing last May, after five days on my hands and knees refinishing the kitchen floor. On day six my left hand was numb, and the fingers curled to the palm like Dupuytren's Contracture. I though I'd had a stroke! I called my brother in ATL (a radiologist), and he laughed: carpal tunnel, said he. After a couple of weeks in a splint I was basically OK (although my hand is still somewhat numb). At least it was my left hand, and I - too - am hopelessly right-handed.
Take care, Tom. Get well soon. Think about Paul Simon's lyrics to A Simple Desultory Philipic while you mend:

I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored.
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd.
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind.
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed.
That's the hand I use, well, never mind!

[DrDan]

5. I vote for Saudi Arabia

Housing, security, any other support needed to run this kind of operation can be found there. . . .plus bush family and the saudi royal family remain tight . . . .

I lived and worked there for 4 years . . . and spent a lot of time with the U.S.A.F. and other military units there . . . I see no reason it could not be housed there . . .

[NNN0LHI]

6. Saudi Arabia where it has been for decades

Big secret.

Don

[DemoTex]

7. Gonna have to shoot ya' now, Don.

Know what I mean?

[NNN0LHI]

12. Don't shoot. Here is a link

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-04/25/content_326110.htm

Saudis aided in Iraq more than thought
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-04-25 11:40

During the Iraq war, Saudi Arabia secretly helped the United States far more than has been acknowledged, allowing operations from at least three air bases, permitting special forces to stage attacks from Saudi soil and providing cheap fuel, U.S. and Saudi officials say.

The American air campaign against Iraq was essentially managed from inside Saudi borders, where military commanders operated an air command center and launched refueling tankers, F-16 fighter jets, and sophisticated intelligence gathering flights, according to the officials.

Much of the assistance has been kept quiet for more than a year by both countries for fear it would add to instability inside the kingdom. Many Saudis oppose the war and U.S. presence on Saudi soil has been used by Osama bin Laden to build his terror movement. snip

These officials would only talk on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic sensitivity and the fact that some operational details remain classified. snip

In addition, U.S. and coalition aircraft launched attacks, reconnaissance flights and intelligence missions from three Saudi air bases, not just the Prince Sultan Air Base where U.S. officials have acknowledged activity. snip

Gen. T. Michael Moseley, a top Air Force general who was a key architect of the air campaign in Iraq, called the Saudis "wonderful partners" although he agreed to discuss their help only in general terms.

"We operated the command center at Saudi Arabia. We operated airplanes out of Saudi Arabia, as well as sensors, and tankers," said Moseley in an interview with the AP. He said he treasured "their counsel, their mentoring, their leadership and their support."

Publicly, American and Saudi officials have portrayed the U.S. military presence during the war as minimal and limited to Prince Sultan Air Base, where Americans have operated on and off over the last decade. Any other American presence during the war was generally described as humanitarian, such as food drops, or as protection against Scud missile attacks.

During the war, U.S. officials held media briefing about the air war from Qatar, although the air command center was in Saudi Arabia — a move designed to keep from inflaming the Saudi public.

[CANDO]

10. Qatar

That's my guess.

[Traveling_Home]

11. Yep - Qatar - was at ....

Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. In 2003 went to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=29047