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CATCH AND RELEASE br> Re: Shawn Macomber's Our Ghaffer Gaffe : /p>

A very good article. And to its points it is good as far as it goes. But I think we are missing an excellent opportunity here. Many of the past year or so have made great hay over our terrorist version of "catch and release." But I think there is a greater good to be gained if we played our cards right.

• Americans being the Good Samaritans that we are would not think of sending a jihadist back without the proper immunizations. Can I help it that one of the 'immunizations' is sand grain size tracker technology embedded under the skin?

p>• Americans being reasonably smart would have the good sense to br> provide counter insurgency teams with the proper gear. Like orbital, br> airborne and handheld detection equipment for sand grain transducers. /p>

• Americans having a frontier background know that to bag a lot of turkeys, you hold back your shots till the "alpha" gobbler makes the scene. Then you bag the whole lot of them.

Considering the state of black ops technology I might be sitting out on a limb but I doubt it, that this is exactly what is going on or is contemplated in the near term. The Middle East insurgency revolves around tribal-ethnic relationships. It is very tough for strangers let alone foreigners to break into the inner circle of these cells.

But, tag and release with mop of the members, that breaks the cell. No insurgency once the word got out would risk taking back a member who has been detained by the Coalition. Too high a risk. That fear of track and detection could be our greatest weapon. Better than any gun, bomb or radio.

p>Like the old bull said, "Let's just walk down and get'em all."

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