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I don't see why this nullifies the advancements made under the surge. Certainly the surge will have made such an effort more effective.
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Maybe we've been actually supplying the insurgents with arms, which unbeknownst to them are marked with GPS. We track them and at first opportunity, kill whoever is carrying the marked gun. That would keep most insurgents from picking up a weapon, because they don't know which are being tracked, and which aren't.
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WOuld they be killed or would theprgram simply be rendered ineffective?
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A co-worker told me that he watched the ABC interview with Woodward on youtube this morning ( I don't have time to look it up). Woodward said that he shared what he'd learned with a General and he said he could see the blood drain from the General's face as he realized what Woodward knew. Reportedly the General said "you cannot write about this. It will get people killed." I have yet to see the interview so I can't confirm.
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Could it be nanobots? I recall reading an article in a science magazine a few years ago that said scientists had finally discovered how a fly is able to get lift (they have 8 wings, and previously scientists couldn't understand how the 8 wings operated together to lift the fly off the ground). They were using that understanding to create mechanical flies which would operate as surveillance cameras, feeding information to the military.
If the US could send mechanical flies into every single home/cave/bunker/whatever, they could get all the info they need to find the terrorists and take them out. I don't know how this would get people killed, though, if anyone knew about it. |
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"The program -- which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb -- must remain secret for now or it would "get people killed," Woodward said Monday on CNN's Larry King Live." |
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OK, no need to pile on here. I was distracted by a shiny object on my desk.
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Marking. That's interesting. But whom or what would be marked? There might be a pattern of cell phone use that is different for Al Qaeda. Like calls to Pakistan for example. Triangulate the signal. Repeated ad nauseum, and you have some information. My real-time imaging idea with computer algorithm and risk stratification does not use any significant human intelligence to identify targets, other than what city or neighborhood to look at. |
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