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To: butterdezillion; gandalftb
31 posted on Fri Sep 07 2012 14:52:24 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by butterdezillion: “Does anybody know if he purposely put in false-flag details that would make our enemies THINK they know our operations, when they don’t? That’s a rhetorical question because if he did, it would be stupid of somebody to out the false-flag mission. Who knows but what he actually HELPED operational security in a very sneaky way.”

Good question, but I don't have the knowledge to give any kind of informed answer. Gandalftb may have a better answer.

Considering where I live and work, I can think of perhaps a half-dozen people I know well who might actually be able to say something intelligent, but they're all intelligent enough to know better than to talk to pesky reporters about such things.

Anyone in the media who covers the military knows that some questions are best left unasked. Osama bin Laden stuff is far above my pay grade, much better people than me are focusing on that, and I stick to things where I can actually make a difference and which others aren't looking into.

32 posted on 09/08/2012 6:17:53 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: darrellmaurina; butterdezillion

Good question.

The book is written in a very chatty style, not what I would expect from a military author. Clearly it seems to be the co-author’s work from conversations with Bissonnette.

Generally, there are no direct admissions of a confidential nature. However, someone in the know could infer operationally sensitive tactics that could help an enemy harden a future target.

Some of the described operational tactics make no sense such as having the QRF on the ground somewhere. That makes no sense, a QRF (Quick Reaction Force)...has to be quick...and that means loitering overhead.

This goes to my complaint about fuel and range-payload extension of force tactics that are classified.

Now that the book is open source, bin Laden’s tactics can be discussed. UBL chose to locate in Abbottabad, thinking that being next to the Paki West Point would prevent a raid by us. Ok, good thought, but a consequence was that UBL and his guards heard so many Paki helos going over that they became desensitized and ignored them.

That writing would help a future enemy hide better, but a thinking enemy should know that already. Where UBL erred was going so far underground that he no longer kept a very professional security force.

I don’t think the co-author was clever enough or in the know to leave false-flags, he wrote what he was told.


33 posted on 09/08/2012 9:39:51 AM PDT by gandalftb (The art of diplomacy says "nice doggie", until you find a bigger rock.)
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