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2008-09-18 Afghanistan

CIA using missile strikes to 'tickle' terrorists

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Posted by Frank G 2008-09-18 10:32|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Goading the enemy into doing what you want them to do. Love it! Sun Tzu would be proud.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-18 11:02|| 2008-09-18 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The CIA is counting on academia to help supply and train staff? Don't these beauzeaux understand they are on the enemies' side?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-18 11:33|| 2008-09-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 IMO, optimal reaction = dead. nothing fancy, just dead.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-09-18 14:04|| 2008-09-18 14:04|| Front Page Top

#4 There is a reason that the military has specialty schools. No one should count on colleges to provide knowledge as required by the military, CIA, ect. If instructors are needed, vet them and hire them & then stick them into the organizational education system as required.

Posted by tipover 2008-09-18 15:01|| 2008-09-18 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Outside of langauages (and even then), military schools set their curriculum based on what the military needs at the moment. And they are specialty schools. What an intel specialist may need about a Pakistani valley or tribal interactions, for examples, might be found in a 19th century account by a British surveyor or in the mind of an anthroplogy professor.

Thing is, that kind of needed information and knowledge is usually found only in academia, and is readily available (even the obscure material). For the CIA to replicate it would be staggering in time and money.

Posted by Pappy 2008-09-18 16:06|| 2008-09-18 16:06|| Front Page Top

#6 The Central Intelligence Agency is using strikes against enemy targets to learn how the groups respond when attacked,

Something like "LET'S GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!" ?

Posted by Raj 2008-09-18 16:30|| 2008-09-18 16:30|| Front Page Top

#7 More like,

"Who do they run too?"
"What are their safe houses?"
"Are there members of the Pakistani government they are calling?"

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-18 17:10|| 2008-09-18 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 What's their 1st ~~phone call~~ smoke signal.

Posted by .5MT 2008-09-18 17:28|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-09-18 17:28|| Front Page Top

#9 also to see what splatter patterns correspond to what angles ....

CSI Balochistan

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-18 18:50|| 2008-09-18 18:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Picture of Spy arrested

http://mrmentoybox.com/mrmentoybox/1_images/information/tickle.jpg

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-09-18 20:57|| 2008-09-18 20:57|| Front Page Top