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Predator aircraft flying the frontier area . . .

. . . between the United States and Canada? What up with that? Is there some new hockey-fied version of the FATA up there? I thought most of the American Taliban were down south. Or in Mill Valley, California. At any rate, I remain confident we have nothing to fear from our little Canadian amigos. ...

By Thomas E. Ricks

| June 26, 2009, 6:01 PM

. . . between the United States and Canada? What up with that? Is there some new hockey-fied version of the FATA up there? I thought most of the American Taliban were down south. Or in Mill Valley, California. At any rate, I remain confident we have nothing to fear from our little Canadian amigos.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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