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2013-03-27 Terror Networks

Killing Terrorist Leaders Prolonging War on Terror?

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Posted by tipper 2013-03-27 12:18|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Bullshit, when they're dead, they can't fight or be anything else, It's the end.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-27 12:35|| 2013-03-27 12:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps it is true, but only if the leaders being killed were just about to surrender, and their replacements don't have the juice to make it happen. I see no signs of such, and so, killing them is beneficial (well, not to them...)

Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-27 12:54|| 2013-03-27 12:54|| Front Page Top

#3 We at the Burg have always thought that the premature promotion of relatively inexperienced Number Threes was a good thing...

Posted by Steve White 2013-03-27 13:06|| 2013-03-27 13:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Would this be another example of "So stupid only an academic would believe it?"

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-03-27 13:27|| 2013-03-27 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Folks in the third world tend to horde information as their own power-base. If they die that info is likely to die with them.

I suspect the terrorists fall into this pattern and thus have to reinvent the wheel from time to time after drone strikes.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-03-27 14:45|| 2013-03-27 14:45|| Front Page Top

#6 "I suspect the terrorists fall into this pattern and thus have to reinvent the wheel from time to time after drone strikes."

Increase the drone strikes!

Posted by Barbara 2013-03-27 15:01|| 2013-03-27 15:01|| Front Page Top

#7 One thing the article recommends is something I suspect happens already - when you find a guy you want to zap you wait and watch for a while, and find/follow who he interacts with, then hit the network in a swarm of attacks. I've noticed the drone attacks do seem to come in clusters, especially when a Mr. (kind of) Big is involved.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-27 15:50|| 2013-03-27 15:50|| Front Page Top

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