I would think that normally they would send in the CIA instead.

Oh, that's right. Even the head of the CIA couldn't even keep a romantic affair secret. NVM.

Why would they send the CIA? The CIA isn't law enforcement and they weren't there to collect intelligence.

FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency

See the difference?

there's a bit of history between the US and Iceland, involves a US occupation. until quite recently.

Settle down.

It was a joke. Jeez, u mad about it bro ?

I would think that normally they would send in the CIA instead.

For the FBI-CIA people, FBI is domestic intelligence, CIA is foreign intelligence. HOWEVER, the FBI also doubles as a federal law enforcement agency. Ur all right.

Love Iceland.

Goddamn rednecks and their terror tactics.

When will you people learn that redneck is another term for cowboy and is not considered an insult.

Announce this in any bar in Texas and let us know the ugly results. And they will be ugly.

Being an intelligence collection agency, the CIA is singularly un-suited to undertaking a law-enforcement role, not to mention that most foriegn activities of the CIA are at least somewhat 'covert' in nature, which is also generally unsuited to lawenforcement activities.

FBI was the correct agency to send - presuming they bothered to abide by the rules, which, it appears, they did not.



I personally know several folks as were stationed in Iceland. If anything, it was quite the opposite of 'occupation' (and anyone who claims it *was* an occupation is either ignorant, or selling something). Few servicemen were allowed to take quarters off base. Uniforms NOT to be worn off base. Keflavik was very nearly under quarantine status.
Despite the hostile environement, NAS Keflavic provided almost 1000 locals employment.

Our last expert up above hails from San Francisco/Florida so his redneck experience amounts to a model in a designer 'cowboy' hat driving a sports car asking if he wants to ro-day-o with a heavy lisp.
Stay off the wiki.

Look at the guy who's trying to be all text book with the online dictionary and wiki quotes. And look how silly he is trying to say that cowboys, whom he classified poorly, are a dieing breed. Our last expert up above hails from San Francisco/Florida so his redneck experience amounts to a model in a designer 'cowboy' hat driving a sports car asking if he wants to ro-day-o with a heavy lisp. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you live on the east coast in some nice big city.

Stay off the wiki.

This is something many people in nations around the world don't understand. The US is renting these bases from host nations; they're paying billions of dollars PER MONTH to be there. If the Icelandic government wanted the US out of Iceland, they would ask them to leave, as did Saudi Arabia. The US doesn't own any of these bases. These bases are a cash cow for their local and national economies and are required to hire local nationals to work for them as per the SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement).

Well, to be fully up-to-date, Keflavik *has* been returned to the Iceland and the Althing; The US pulled most of it's forces out of Icealand in the Mid-00's.

Otherwise, generally spot-on.

I was born in an incredibly small town in rural Arkansas and lived there 13 years before spending until the age of 30 in HOUSTON, TEXAS.

edit: Also, reported for your obnoxious 'lisp' comment.

edit redux: Also.....SUPER CREEPY that you've paid such close attention to my background. That merits some further attention I think.

I live in Italy, you idiot. I joined the USAF after high school but grew up on a 2000 acre ranch with over 500 head of cattle and 10 head of horses in Louisiana. I got into team roping and calf roping due to the necessity of having to go rope cattle out in the pasture and doctor them. I competed semi-professionally but gave it up because I wanted to join the military. I've forgotten more about ranching and cowboying than your gun-rack-in-the-pickup-with-the-rebel-flag-in-the-window, I-just-saw-8 Seconds-so-now-Imma-be-a-bull-rider ignorant ass will ever know. You're a Texan, though. It's understandable.

I was born in an incredibly small town in rural Arkansas and lived there 13 years before spending until the age of 30 in HOUSTON, TEXAS.

edit: Also, reported for your obnoxious 'lisp' comment.

edit redux: Also.....SUPER CREEPY that you've paid such close attention to my background. That merits some further attention I think.

Wow, that's great news! I got out in the mid-2000s and decided to stay in Italy (I love living in the EU), so I'm out of the loop. I had heard that our unit was leaving Kevlavik, but never heard the rest of the story. Friends told me that they go TDY there sometimes for training, but that's all I know. I'm always glad to see the US leaving its bases overseas, especially when they're totally useless like Kevlavik was. Even if it's not an occupation, when it's time to go, it's time to go.

That's my boy, always willing to dish it out but ready to hit the report button because he can't take it. By the way spending time in Texas does not make you a cowboy, it makes you a Texan.

Never said I was Texan :) For some reason you city slickers assume that Texas is the only place where hicks come from. And yeah, its painfully obvious that you have forgotten so much when you directly pull quotes from the first line of 2 wiki pages.





That's my boy, always willing to dish it out but ready to hit the report button because he can't take it. By the way spending time in Texas does not make you a cowboy, it makes you a Texan.

Erm no. There just is not a place here for your particular brand of pointless obnoxiousness.

Wikipedia? Did you actually have to look up in a wiki what I said? I'm drawing upon my personal history and experience

Redneck is a derogatory term for poorly-educated, rural simpletons
Cowboys are ranchers and cattlemen