To: Cap Huff; Travis McGee
The hunt is being boosted by a computer program developed in Iraq to locate 'high value human targets'. The program charts links between thousands of people associated with a fugitive, allowing intelligence officers to detect key individuals who might have vital information.I have read about this computer program but can't remember what they call it..
The Americans are also employing 'psychological operations' against bin Laden, allowing news of the new push to leak into the media. US intelligence specialists know that, like Saddam, bin Laden and his aides monitor the media and are hoping that news of the operation will 'flush out' the terrorist leader, forcing him to leave winter hideouts for fear they have become known to the coalition or to Pakistan.
Travis you called this last night on the Cofer Balck thread I believe....psy-ops to get Bunny moving.
'The sands in their hourglass are running out. We reaffirm our effort to track these guys down and get 'em,' said Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Beevers, a US military spokesman in Afghanistan.
Cap there is that term again..."sands in the hourglass..."
17 posted on
02/29/2004 3:23:48 AM PST by
Dog
(Bin Laden your account to America is past due......time to pay up.)
To: Dog
"The Americans are also employing 'psychological operations' against bin Laden, allowing news of the new push to leak into the media."
I have come to the conclusion that the weird use of the expression "sands of the hourglass" relates somehow to psyops. It may be that flyers dropped in the region use this analogy. It may also be a case of using OBL's own words against him. Maybe this was an expression he used in a communication he thought was secure, but we intercepted. Once he finds out that his communications have been hacked, he might panic. Maybe it is a way of taunting him (and may just be the reason that Zawahiri tried to taunt back in his tape the other week).
26 posted on
02/29/2004 5:04:01 AM PST by
Cap Huff
To: Dog
Travis you called this last night on the Cofer Balck thread I believe....psy-ops to get Bunny moving. Dog, countless of us have been saying this for weeks.
49 posted on
03/01/2004 4:58:29 AM PST by
Coop
("Hero" is the last four-letter word I'd use to describe John Kerry)
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