This will be on the order what the Mossad did after the 1972 Munich olympics, only on a far vaster scale.
This is essential but even better would be taking prisoners and extracting every last bit of information about where othewrs were before disposing of them. It is certainly more difficult but there are some very interesting new toys that could facilitate this.
Prisoners yeild intel. Intel will be what wins this part of the war.
The terrorists/government sponsors will, however, react and we will still have the weeping Arab women pictures shown around the Arab Street. Psy-ops will also be very important. We need to make these people seem to be anti-Muslim.
Also useful will be taking a prisoner and releasing that prisoner after a couple days in good shape with extra cash. Then we get the people that hunted that prisoner down because they thought him a traitor.
I still think it will escalate but in the interim this is a strategy that may prevent that.,P>Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
The appended is offered as a possible mix of other special forces that may be involved in the effort.
"Achtung! Hier kommen die KSK!
Western politicians have swung into a whirlwind of important meetings in response to the terrorist attacks in America. Mr. Chirac has been to Washington, Mr. Blair to Berlin, and so on. Chris Patten, the EU foreign affairs commissar, gave in a radio interview a huge list of inter-ministerial meetings he was attending this week as proof that something is being done even though many might be forgiven for thinking that it is business as usual for him. One thing seems certain: the Americans want the British SAS to go into Afghanistan. But the Germans might get a slice of action too. On 19th September, the German parliament approved by a massive majority the principle that the German army would co-operate with the Americans in the war against terrorism. A huge demonstration was organised in front of the Brandenburg gate in Berlin to show support for the US. A poll for Die Woche shows a large majority of Germans in favour of American strikes, even though most Germans do not want their army to get involved.
There have therefore been high-level talks between the US and Germany. At the centre of German-American discussions are "secret" plans (reported in the newspapers) about how Germany might participate. An elite commando of the German army is said to be eliciting special interest among security bods in Washington: the KSK or Kommando Spezialkräfte (Commando Special Forces). A German general told the FAZ that, "Special intervention forces like the KSK are the things which Western armies lack most keenly." Western armies, he said, had only 3,000 such troops who could capture presumed terrorists and their accomplices. Another senior German army officer said that the KSK might be better even than the US Delta Force since the KSK, having originally been trained by the SAS, was better at fighting terrorism and capturing persons.
Looking a little like Darth Vader, or like the SS, the men of the KSK wear a black uniform with black masks and helmets. They are laden with guns and equipped with the latest radio and infra-red equipment. The KSK was created in 1996 after Belgian paras had to rescue two journalists from Deutsche Welle out of Rwanda. If the German commando is sent into Kabul, it is likely to be accompanied by both British and French special forces and also perhaps by American special troops of which there are some 40,000 in the US forces. The French would be likely to send their 13th parachute regiment (known as Dragon) as well as their own elite unit, Commando de Renseignement et dAction Profondeur, or CRAP for short." [Udo Ulfkotte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19th September 2001
] (From: EUROPEAN FOUNDATION INTELLIGENCE DIGEST ISSUE 126)