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Native American trackers to hunt bin Laden
The Australian ^
| March 12, 2007
| Unsigned
Posted on 03/12/2007 10:55:51 AM PDT by aculeus
WASHINGTON: An elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan's borders.
The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache. It is being sent to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to pass on ancestral sign-reading skills to local border units.
In recent years, members of the Shadow Wolves have mainly tracked smugglers along the US border with Mexico.
But the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan and the US military's failure to hunt down Osama bin Laden - still at large on his 50th birthday on Saturday - has prompted the Pentagon to requisition them.
US Defence Secretary Robert M.Gates said last month: "If I were Osama bin Laden, I'd keep looking over my shoulder."
The Pentagon has been alarmed at the ease with which Taliban and al-Qa'ida fighters have been slipping in and out of Afghanistan. Defence officials are convinced their movements can be curtailed by the Shadow Wolves.
The unit has earned international respect for its tracking skills in the Arizona desert. It was founded in the early 1970s to curb the flow of marijuana into the US from Mexico and has since tracked people-smugglers across hundreds of square kilometres of the Tohono O'odham tribal reservation, southwest of Tucson.
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TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: shadowwolves
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:55:54 AM PDT
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
Should that be public information?
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:56:54 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: aculeus
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:57:32 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: aculeus
Sharpen those tomahawks.
To: TigersEye
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:59:06 AM PDT
by
pandoraou812
( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
To: aculeus
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:59:19 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(Anyone who is with you 80% percent of the time is your 80% friend, not. your 20% your enemy- Reagan)
To: aculeus
"Well, we got Osama bin Laden, BUT..."
(just practicing the for the MSM/Dims)
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:00:23 AM PDT
by
rightinthemiddle
(Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
To: aculeus
Is this actually saying ....no, I'M not gonna be the one to bring it up. This should not have been published.
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:03:11 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(When Congress prosecutes wars, you'll get Another Viet Nam)
To: SMARTY
"Should that be public information?"
The media tells the enemy everything else.....WTF?
But hey, I won't tell if you won't!!! /s
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:03:35 AM PDT
by
Jeffrey_D.
(Seek first to understand, then to be understood)
To: SMARTY
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:04:58 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(BullS##t does not get bridges built)
To: aculeus
The Shadow Wolves report back: "We have found Bin Laden!"
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:05:06 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Barak Hussein Obama: The Rorschach inkblot candidate)
To: aculeus
Osama in heap big trouble now.
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:05:24 AM PDT
by
Whit
To: aculeus
Bin Laden would look pretty good with one of these sticking out of the back of his head.
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:05:33 AM PDT
by
Zeroisanumber
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: SMARTY
OBL only has every intelligence/spy/law enforcement agency on the planet looking for him, so I don't see why this is news. As if some mythical Indian character is going to scatter some bones around, and blow some dust into the air as a vulture flies by is going to help find OBL.
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:08:02 AM PDT
by
Domicile of Doom
(Hey boy why is there dirt in my hole? I dunno Boss.)
To: Domicile of Doom
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:10:04 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: aculeus
It will be interesting to see if it will work. The British in Malaya tried using native trackers to track down the Communist terrorists. They found that once out of their own territory, the trackers didn't do very well. Different vegetation, different soil, different animals, etc. all threw them off.
To: Domicile of Doom
So what do we do with him if we take him alive?
Or does he just trip on a rock and "accidentally" draw and quarter himself?
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:11:42 AM PDT
by
Raymann
To: aculeus
"Hey Butch, who are those guys?"
To: aculeus
Somebody must have dusted off old Gen. George Crook's playbook when we weren't looking?
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:11:56 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: aculeus
Look, Kemosabe, Bin Laden, go that way.
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posted on
03/12/2007 11:12:08 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(In this (political) War, Republicans are gutless appeasers. -- Ann Coulter)
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