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So, to bring everyone up to date - Sally is currently white water rafting. Which I imagine looks something like this:
It is cold and rainy, so hopefully she packed this:
Meanwhile, I've been in my garden:
Drinking tea.
And who should pay me a visit?
Why it's Joint Task Force Two, Canada's top-secret anti-terrorist commando unit.
Joint Task Force II, modeled on the British SAS, was formed in 1993 with a counterterrorism mission. These days, that means it can do anything. Previously, counterterrorism was handled by the RCMP Special Emergency Response Team, but their scope was domestic and it was bad PR for the Mounties to be given a job that involved killing people, therefore it was decided that the Canadian Forces would create and control a top-secret unit for these purposes.
One current deploynment for JTFII is Afghanistan, where our Chief of Defense Staff General Rick Hillier is quoted as saying that the Canadian Forces go after "detestable murderers and scumbags", "radical murderers and killers" and "despicable murderers and bastards". "We are the Canadian Forces," says Gen. Hillier. "Our job is to be able to kill people." Thus, forever shattering our illusions of a Canadian army devoted to repairing damaged hospitals overseas.