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From latest TIME magazine, p 54+55 "[Satellite] intelligence would also guide US commandos
to the right places once they secreted inside Iraq....."
Translation, please?
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secret v. [verbing the noun]
[f. secret n.
In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between "secret and secrete v.]
trans. To keep secret, conceal, hide.
ergo, 'once they hid inside Iraq.'
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If the article had said "once they were secreted inside Iraq", it would have made sense. It would mean that they had been dripped from a pipette rather than dropped from an aircraft ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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In reply to:
If the article had said "once they were secreted inside Iraq", it would have made sense. It would mean that they had been dripped from a pipette rather than dropped from an aircraft ...
Ha! 
Whatcha drinkin' tonight, Cap?
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