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2006-04-14 Afghanistan

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Posted by john 2006-04-14 10:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ISI official "said that he's looking for an U.S. Embassy employee to aid in the bombing of the embassy that [he] is planning." The ISI official promised he would pay the Afghan $100,000 after the destruction of the embassy in Kabul.

Interesting recruiting technique these ISI officers have...

Posted by john 2006-04-14 11:33|| 2006-04-14 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 And I'd be willing to bet our intrepid LA Times reporter copied everyone of them he could get his hands on...

Posted by tu3031 2006-04-14 12:10|| 2006-04-14 12:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Think about what the ISI has already gotten its hands on...

Posted by john 2006-04-14 12:27|| 2006-04-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to employ Tom Clancy's "canary" system and set up some fake convoys to be bombed, thereby revealing who arranged the ambush.

Posted by Zenster 2006-04-14 12:57|| 2006-04-14 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I really wonder about this. Either our troops are very, very sloppy about classified documents, or this is bogus as a $3 bill.

Why weren't these easily-stolen drives locked up at night, if they contained classified, or even sensitive - material? If this guy is "right outside the main gate at Baghram", why haven't security forces closed him down, or at least discovered who is stealing this stuff? This story just smells to me, and I wonder how much truth there is in it.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-04-14 13:55|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-14 13:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Old Patriot--I would say they got real sloppy. When we left diyala, right up to the day I got on the chopper I was running Shredit(tm) on laptops at Reg. HQ. I know we did not manage to zeroize all the classified disks. I wonder how much classified info wound up in the Hajji market.

The sucessful Comsec/Opsec mentality requires a level of instituional parinoia we simply do not posess. The attitude seems to be "Better that we make the enemy worry about what we are going to do to them, and not worry about what they are going to do to us".

WRT to the GWOT, and the Mad Mullahs--Faster please. We make more (fatal) mistakes when we slow down and let the world cach up with us.

Posted by N guard 2006-04-14 14:08|| 2006-04-14 14:08|| Front Page Top

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