Posted on 01/04/2012 6:35:20 PM PST by AMitchum
A scene of stomach-clenching gore confronted the special operations troops: the shredded remains of a suicide bomber, scattered around the checkpoint. But the blood and body are fake, like the Hollywood-style explosion that began a classroom exercise designed to teach these students to look past the grisly mess for the evidence that could lead to those who built the bomb. Fort Bragg’s Special Warfare Center shows how the U.S. has turned hunting terror networks into half-science, half-art-form since the al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Forging lessons painfully learned in the decade since into a formal curriculum, the training is intended to help elite military units track militants across international boundaries and work alongside sometimes competing U.S. agencies.
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This will help in hunting those pesky Tea-Party people down when they take to the hills.
The difference is that when hunting Taliban they have to call the lawyers before firing.
You’re full of sh!t. I spent years in LIC and never felt like a cop....never looked on Americans as targets...just tried to do my part to keep socialism/communism from the shores of America.
What have you done lately?
Shamrock do you think the game is changing? This article reads like it could have been written about the Brits ops in Northern Ireland.
The possiblity that at the top of the command chain there could be (with obamunista it seems more certain as he has expressed wanting a national police force with the same power as the US military— he said it)people with this agenda, despite all efforts of the force on the street to preserve freedom. Cause everyone knows the CIA has no domestic operations, right? Your thoughts?
The course is Sensitive Site Exploitation, which is not spy craft.
It trains soldiers in the exploitation and extraction of data and physical intel at enemy sites. This has been done forever
in military history, but they have given it a fancy new name.
Nothing to get exited over.
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