Strategy: Crack Force Set to Prise Bin Laden from his Lair

News Telegraph - UK ^ | 9/30/01

[GVnana]

I would've settled for a simple decapitation, but your's is good too!

[Mensius]

I keep fantasizing that they find bin Laden, kill him, cut out his heart and stuff it in his mouth, then Fed-ex the corpse to Saddam Hussein.

Brutal is right, but I have to admit, I was fantasizing before Bush's speach to Congress that he would lift the still bloodied head of OBL up from behind the dias.

[GVnana]

Good night. Good night, Pharmboy. (Couldn't resist.)

[Cindy]

Well, isn't it wonderful that no matter where you turn, "main-stream media" and "alternative-media" report on our alleged troops' plans, alleged proposed plans, the troops shipping out and their specialties, the ships, planes, et al that are being positioned....I can see that there is a lot of media types who really, really care about who gets the story first, rather than the safety of our military.

Just a general observatiion regarding the media in general. Carry on...

[AGAviator]

Anything's possible. There's always a new counter-measure against any new measure. No one thought the WTC towers would fall either. Engineering the destruction of "impenetrable caves" can be a fitting response for the destruction of the US targets.

[Travis McGee]

Amen! That would be poetic, to coldly and methodically apply our sniffers and big ears and other sensors to one cave complex after another like the Orkin Men.

Maybe Bush really did mean "SMOKE THEM OUT"!

[jrewingjr]

Here's what LarryLied (MaryLied from now on), said re our special Forces earlier:

"Well....yadda...yadda...yadda...I will tell you what these great heros will do. They will squeal to their families when they are captured. Their families will go on CNN. They will tear our hearts out about how horribly they are being treated and ..please...please...can't we do something for them. Have all the faith you want in them. I don't." - LarryLied

Here's the link to the thread.

This sounds like something Bin Laden would have said. Disgusting.

[boltfromblue]

The American Japanese unit did that in the Phillipines.

[boltfromblue]

Underground here maintains a temperature ca. 65 F. Maybe lower in rocks?

[Centurion2000]

Kinky!

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[elfman2]

"Well, we've got this no first strike thing…"

No we don't. That was a BIG issue during the cold war when the USSR had us outnumbered with tanks and artillery in Europe by about five to one. Meanwhile, the Soviets promoted their "no first strike" policy and lambasted us for not joining them. Despite pressure from "peace" groups, we stood our ground, kept the option and therefore minimized the USSR's ability to intimidate us into accepting agreements that were more to their favor. (That's something else that will not be taught in most universities.)

There was a report that immediately after the attack, the Bush administration was inquiring into the kiloton yield of an exploding fully fueled 757. Speculation was that they were preparing a case for the terrorist having used weapons of mass destruction first.

[GVnana]

Thank you. The no first strike position is one I've seen repeated here on FR several times. Happily corrected.

[evad]

>>Works for yellow-jackets. It'll prolly work on yellow-afghans. <<

oooh, oooh..maybe we could use sevin dust.

[GVnana]

Sorry. We have a Blazing Saddles thing going on another thread.

[Doohickey]

Sounds like an anthill. The way to get rid of an anthill is to saturate it with gas, light it on fire, step back and watch the little b@st@rds burn.

[GVnana]

I thought I smelled a .Rat.

[Pharmboy]

Good morning GVgirl--I couldn't resist.

[GVnana]

Good morning! I'm waiting for this dialogue in Yankee ingenuity to fire up again!

[Flint]

What bloody and dangerous work this will be.

Dangerous yes, but only bloody for the Bin Laden crowd.

I can think of no situation that could give me more pleasure than to find my enemy in a cave. The entrances can be identified easily. Air vents and generator units can be found in the cold winter air by the vapor plumes that they will emit. Any heating system will show up as melted snow on the surface and as heat tracks on infrared satellite photographs. The cave entrances will be like big red bloches on those same photos.

A few well placed missles will take out any above ground defences and a few sachel charges will close all the openings. Then on to the next complex.

I do not understand why the mind set is that we have to go into each complex and poke every raghead in the eye with a sharp stick. If 1000 of them are in a cave, you shut them in the cave and then go on to the next cave. A small company of Marines could keep 1000 armed camel jockies bottled up in a cave for years. They will run out of food, water and air eventualy.

[GVnana]

You make it sound like fish in a barrel. I have to wonder how far-off our ground forces are. When. When?