Posted on 09/23/2004 4:03:12 PM PDT by guinness4strength
Flash-column by Joe Moody
This idea may sound expensive, but more expensive is the cost of losing the War on Terror. The U. S military should supply every contractor and civilian working in Iraq with a covert GPS device.
Perhaps the device could be implanted within an ordinary object that someone would normally carry, such as a camera. The military would know exactly who has each device, so if someone is kidnapped, the military could easily track the person down.
The CIA could even recruit undercover agents pretending to the U.S. contractors to frequent dangerous areas, they could have the device on them at all times.
If such a method was carried out correctly, we could catch the big rotten fish, Aimen Al-Zwahari, who continues to allude to capture while personally be-heading innocent Americans on video.
We need to out-think them, bombs can only do so much!
PS welcome to FR
Give the contract to Manchurian Global, they have the experience...
You think that what is proposed here is a bad idea?
Besides, they could do it like LowJack, only send out a signal to turn the device on when said contract employee has been reported missing.
OTOH.....
Any tracking device carried externally would be quickly dispatched by the savages, and if it were sub-dermal, animals that are capable of cutting off a head will certainly have no problem cutting out an implant.
It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.Why use the ID SNIPER(tm) rifle?
As the urban battlefield grows more complex and intense, new ways of managing and controlling crowds are needed. The attention of the media changes the rules of the game. Sometimes it is difficult to engage the enemy in the streets without causing damage to the all important image of the state. Instead EMPIRE NORTH suggests to mark and identify a suspicious subject on a safe distance, enabeling the national law enforcement agency to keep track on the target through a satellite in the weeks to come.
I've been saying this for months, and I know if average joes like us have been saying it, our intelligence must be working on it.
Aerovironments Inc. makes these with full video capability - and is trying to supply a deaf, dumb and blind US government with these, for all kinds of applications.
Won't work. These animals WILL know where they're implanted and WILL simply cut them out of their captives.
Shhhhhhh.
Never underestimate the inertia, laziness and pigheaded parochialism of a bureaucracy.
In the case of Digital Angel or doggie tags it is supplied by the device, while very close to the chip, (a few feet or less,) used to interogate it.
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