Originally Posted by editeur

What these British and US middle-age undistinguished but fit men were doing there in the MidEast in the middle of raging civil war? Bringin supplies and help to the poor civillians? "The Salford taxi driver was delivering aid to Syria in December" - sure he was, can you imagine a taxi driver from your neighborhood suddenly delivering aid to Syria? Like, he worked all his life in taxi (probably not too smart guy as he couldn't find anything better), but he, like, had a dream, quit work, found the way to the battle zone of Syria (multiple planes, trains and hiking in the middle of desert), found there an employer who gave him aid to move to the poor Syrians, and all this by himself. This should be quite enterprising driver, fuckin' James Bond of taxi drivers.

They are obvious spies and secret service officers. Sudden death is the risk which goes hand to hand ith their job. "Killed" is the wrong word in their case. "Executed".