[Coop]

You're exactly right. And not only do we force the change in money movement, but we also have captured ten of their folks. While they're probably not top-level folks, their incarceration has to be causing some serious heartburn for their higher-ups.

[Angelus Errare]

I consider the hashish a more valuable catch than the cannon fodder. Guarding a drug shipment isn't exactly all that glorious an assignment for a prospective holy warrior, in all likelihood they'd much rather be in Iraq or Afghanistan or Chechnya duking it out with the kufr. The other thing to keep in mind is that this is the fourth drug bust we've had along this same route (though we have yet to learn whether these drugs are coming from the Arabian Peninsula or Iran), i.e. we've compromised their traffic line.