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Re: Hezbollah Trains Iraqi Militants, Says Interrogation Reports
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Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout
So we have an informant.
From here, I think we need to do surveilance if we can. We need to pursue all covert options, get all the information we can, and corroborate the interrogation.
No longer should we pre-emptively strike a nation based on heresay or interrogation results.
It may take some time to track the network down and find out who's a part of it and where all the operations are....but I think we have to start there...
The covert element of the cold war was vastly important and so will it be in the "War" against terrorism. We need to start building a real intelligence gathering capacity in the middle east and we should start getting serious about it.
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That's probably the best avenue for the US, from a national security perspective. With all the resources spent on conventional force, it seems that America could have built one hell of a post-Cold War intelligence apparatus. But it seems that for a military hegemon, conventional strength is given preference over clandestine strength. The creation of the Director of National Intelligence and the integration of the Intelligence Community may be a step in the other direction though.
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