U.S. claims intelligence coup

Excite ^ | 10/21/2001 | Brian Williams and Sayed Salahuddin

[untenured]

Indeed, one of the Indian papers (the Hindustan Times, I think), speculated that "intelligence" meant prisoners.

[Hillary 666]

If they've discovered something very important, it's not all that bright to shout it from the rooftops, especially when there's no need to do it.

The purpose of this raid was to instill fear into the Taliban cockroaches by using serious shock force to hit an area that the Taliban thought was safe and hidden from US air raids.

[dr_who]

Instilling fear is good.

[LaGrone]

I believe the thought that we can insert troops into their stronghold when we want to is psychologically crushing to them and I believe that was the intent of the action.

[Hillary 666]

Right on. We shouldn't let them off easy. We'll scare the piss out of them before we kill them like the cockroaches that they are.

[dr_who]

Here. Here. Scare the cockroach out of its hiding place, and then squash it. Genius.

[Merovingian]

Is that another way of saying they didn't bring back any scalps?

We'll never know....;}