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Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Ideas to Fight Terrorism (Lets hear them)
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| Oct 24, 2001
| Reuters
Posted on 10/25/2001 9:05:44 AM PDT by jern
Thursday October 25 11:52 AM ET Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Ideas to Fight Terrorism
Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Ideas to Fight Terrorism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon appealed to Americans on Thursday to send in bright ideas on thwarting terrorism, announcing an unusual, open competition to speed the winners into use.
The Defense Department said it was looking for help in ''defeating difficult targets, conducting protracted operations in remote areas and developing countermeasures to weapons of mass destruction.''
The goal was to find concepts that can be developed and fielded in 12 to 18 months, a blink of an eye compared with standard Pentagon acquisition and deployment procedures.
U.S. officials from President Bush down have said they fear more terrorist attacks after the Sept. 11 hijack attacks that killed more than 5,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on a crashed flight in Pennsylvania.
Laying out a streamlined three-step application process, the Pentagon called for one-page idea descriptions by Dec. 23. Those retained will be asked to provide up to 12 pages of details.
The department then will invite those with the most promising ideas to submit full proposals in a third phase ``that may form the basis for a contract,'' a statement said.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
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posted on
10/25/2001 9:05:44 AM PDT
by
jern
To: jern
They should simply read FR!
2
posted on
10/25/2001 9:08:47 AM PDT
by
wysiwyg
To: jern
Stop risking more American lives, USE NUKES, and show these animals we mean business.
Nuff said.
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posted on
10/25/2001 9:09:10 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
To: jern
Come on Freepers. I'll bet many good ideas flow from here.
My first: All foreign nationals entering the U.S. expressly waive any privacy claims (a la Fourth Amendment type protections) and are subject to warrantless taps and searches...
4
posted on
10/25/2001 9:09:56 AM PDT
by
eureka!
To: jern
Start at Syria and nuke east until you reach the Pacific. World will be a calmer place for centries.
To: jern
Potbellied pigs aboard all airplanes, trains and buses.
6
posted on
10/25/2001 9:11:54 AM PDT
by
jellybean
To: jern
"Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Ideas to Fight Terrorism"
Well, this is very comforting.
7
posted on
10/25/2001 9:12:16 AM PDT
by
hawaiian
To: jern
Respect the 2nd Amendment, allow all law abiding American citizens to be armed on their person, everywhere. A national CCW license.
To: jern
Sure the Pentagon has done this. And they chose to publicize it by leaking the exclusive story to Reuters too.
9
posted on
10/25/2001 9:13:18 AM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
To: jern
''developed and fielded in 12 to 18 months''
Too long you guys are sleeping at the pentagon this is emergency, have you heard the word internet time?it was invented for this situation We need 15 days deployment
10
posted on
10/25/2001 9:14:12 AM PDT
by
ipaq2000
To: hawaiian
Actually, it is very comforting. What the military is fighting is people who are not military. There are some pretty fine minds out here and the military is thinking out of the box for a change. It's quite heartening.
Remember, the war for independence was fought by ordinary Americans. This board is full of hunters, ex-military, conspiracy theorists, people who can look at this problem with fresh perspectives. I think it's a great idea.
Someone should write to them and tell them about FR archives.
To: jern
Take a lesson from early 1900's U.S. military history. Do to them what General John "Blackjack" Pershing did to the Moros in the Phillipines.
12
posted on
10/25/2001 9:19:39 AM PDT
by
wjcsux
To: jern
Here's one area for concern:
Trie->China->Clinton->anthrax?
In the course of 17 secret Trie interviews with the FBI in 1999 the Clinton confidant revealed an elaborate and illegal scheme to funnel large sums into Clinton-Gore campaign coffers and the president’s legal-defense fund. He also confessed to orchestrating the sale of a 500-liter (130-gallon) medical fermentation device to a pharmaceutical plant in China suspected of manufacturing chemical and biological agents for military purposes.
Peter Leitner, a senior Defense Department licensing analyst who specializes in export controls of dual-use technology, has reviewed Insight’s copies of the confidential FBI interviews with Trie.
Leitner says the transfer of the highly sophisticated pharmaceutical-grade fermenting machine poses significant risks to U.S. security at home and abroad if used to make advanced germ-warfare products such as anthrax and botulism.
The buyer was Zhang Jiaming, director of the Changchun Biological Products Institute.
Leitner says the FBI also should have been concerned with the likely participation in the deal of Peter Fu, a toxicology expert at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s research facility on the grounds of the Pine Bluff military arsenal in Arkansas. The arsenal originally was established to produce and store biological weapons, Leitner says.
To: jern
Find and round up every illegal Arab alien and deport them immediately
CLose the borders to any new arab immigration to the US.
If any legal alien is on a list of possibly dangerous people deport them immediately.
Check up on all school waivers.
Tell all terrorists that if they are killed and we find their bodies that we will bury them with pig parts.
Go to the muslim area of New Jersey (where the anthrax is probably from) knock on every door. Anyone runs or acts suspicious haul them in for questioning and search their premises.
THat should do for starters.
To: jern
Has Anyone seen those little rice-grain-sized electronic tagging devices for your pets that you inject under the skin?
Let's use something like that on all visitors to the U.S. only something that brodcasts it own signal. Better than a visa 'cause you can track them down when their visas expire.
To: jern
To: jern
Slit throats against foreign terrorists are cheaper, quicker, and easier than trials. And on top of that, traitor lawyers won't get rich from the war on terrorism.
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posted on
10/25/2001 9:21:07 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
To: jern
Kill them when you catch them.
And if the lawyers object, kill them, too.
Signed...'Moderate"
To: jern
When the powers are pretending to solicit ideas, be very wary. Following this, they may propose ideas very offensive to our liberties, claiming that it was a grass roots idea from "the people."
To: ipaq2000
OK, now I feel better! I guess my question to the Pentagon is this... How can one give any ideas on how to fight against terrorism, if we do not have the facts in front of us? If I would go with who I feel is working in conjunction with osama the parasite, I would say Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. If the Pentagon needs me to help them to decide what to do about Iraq, then that scares the h*ll out of me.
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