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2009-04-19 India-Pakistan

The US government is starting a broad effort in Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from using radio stations and websites, senior US officials have told the Wall Street Journal.
Since the Paks won't jam them, we will.
Why don't we just send some drones to bomb them?
American military and intelligence personnel are working to jam the unlicensed radio stations that Taliban fighters use to broadcast "threats and decrees". US personnel are also trying to block the Pakistani chat rooms and websites joining the extremist underground. The websites frequently contain videos of attacks and inflammatory religious material that attempts to justify acts of violence.
Y'know, as long a we can geolocate the transmitters and even the websites, why don't we simply send a little zap along to say "hello"? Oh. That's right. It'd violate Pak sovreignty.
Psychological operations: The push takes the administration deeper into "psychological operations", which try to influence how the US, its allies and enemies are seen, the report said, noting that officials involved with the new programme have said such operations are a necessary part of halting the deterioration of stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
It's not "psyops." It's Electronic Countermeasures.
Jamming equipment: In Pakistan, Taliban leaders use unlicensed FM stations to recite the names of local Pakistani government officials, police officers and other figures marked for death by the group. Hundreds of people named in the broadcasts have later been killed. "The Taliban aren't just winning the information war -- we're not even putting up that much of a fight," said a senior US official in Afghanistan. "We need to make it harder for them to keep telling the population that they're in control and can strike at any time," he added. The US may also provide radio-jamming equipment to the Pakistan government, according to US officials familiar with the plans.
They don't have their own? How strange. They can't buy their own? Even stranger, since you can buy it off the shelf from any number of places, many of them not even export controlled...
Rwanda radio: Richard Holbrooke, the administration's special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, publicly told reporters there were 150 illegal FM radio stations in Swat Valley, which allowed militants to go "around every night broadcasting the names of people they're going to behead or they've beheaded". He likened the Taliban radio stations to Rwanda's Radio Mille Collines, a sectarian broadcaster widely believed to have helped fuel the Rwandan genocide.
Interservices Intelligence and/or Military Intelligence are somehow incapable of conducting the elementary radio direction finding operations that would allow the Mighty Pak Army to turn the operators of the stations in the dead guys and the transmitters into piles of scrap metal.
The new push reflects the influence of General David Petraeus, head of Central Command and a major proponent of using psychological operations to reduce popular support for armed insurgent groups. The Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment, the report added.

Posted by Fred 2009-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 We have more drones underway. Also, who cares who they kill, it's among themselves. Less work for us...I'm here and to me there is no inocent people here. After loosing friends to 13 years old and woman, I say, let's get them all. Islam is not a peaceful religion, is like comunism, they wanna take over the world. So the few filthy mulas pedaphiles can sodomize, rape and murder at will. That's not what the prophet Muhhamed intended...

Posted by Vinegar Snineting1102 2009-04-19 03:44|| 2009-04-19 03:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Twelve BUFFS, loaded to the gills, down the Swat Valley, one time. That's all it would take - that and a threat to do the same to any other area that harbor Taliban, Al Qaida, LeT, JMB, whatever. ONE act, and we're on it. Of course, that would take a cold-blooded SOB with a heart of steel to do the job, and our current "president" doesn't have enough testosterone in his system to even allow the NAVY to do its job. Things are going to get a lot worse...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-19 14:24|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-19 14:24|| Front Page Top

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