Defense Department wants your ideas for fighting terrorism

Pentagon officials are seeking the public’s ideas for defeating difficult targets, conducting operations in remote areas and figuring out ways to counter weapons of mass destruction.

Concepts must be developed and fielded within the next 18 months, according to a Pentagon announcement.

Believing it to be some type of contest, a few people have asked officials what the prizes are for the best idea.

More than 4,000 ideas have been received, including one from Israel, a Pentagon spokesman said. Initial one-page responses are due by Dec. 23.

The Defense Department will review the proposal and may ask the submitter to provide a more detailed, 12-page description.

The Defense Department will evaluate those submissions, and ask those who submitted the most promising ideas to submit full proposals in a third phase.

In a related development, the FBI has shut down its terrorism tip line. Law enforcement sources said the call volume has dropped, and local FBI offices can handle the tips.

People interested in submitting proposals to the Defense Department can obtain more information by visiting: www.bids.tswg.gov.

A list of local FBI offices is available on the Internet at: www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/info.htm

I read the following piece a few weeks ago, and was posted agaun today. The process dovetails well with your suggestion:

"HOW TO STOP ISLAMIC TERRORISTS A solution to the problem of Islamic Terrorists was developed by the Army: General John "Black Jack" Pershing - USMA class of '86 (that's 1886)! ...... it worked once in our History. Once in U.S. history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the terrorists and teach them a lesson.

Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The U.S. soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter their Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs. All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others.

This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years. Pointing a gun into the face of Islamic terrorists won't make them flinch. They welcome the chance to die for Allah. Like Gen. Pershing, we must show them that they won't get to Muslim heaven but instead will die with the hated pigs of the devil..."

I'll bet our Special Forces wouldn't have any problem with Pershing the evil doers!

Regards

Blue Flag vouches for me below. I thank him/her for that.

However, a good idea is a hard thing to know. Thinking I have one is probably a sign that I don't. Thinking I don't is also probably a sign that I don't. I'm unsure that we'd know it if we had our hands on it.

For what it's worth, I do think there's value in fleshing some ideas out, and, at the same time, you're right about not giving help to the enemy.

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