Posted: 6/6/2007 10:03:22 PM EDT
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why cant the US start seeding terrorists with faulty equipment and arms? ready made munitions that are defective or even with bad small arms ammo, RPGs and mortars that blow up on the user ? |
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They already have a large supply of munitions. We could probably plant such stuff in caches, but it wouldn't take them long to figure out what was going on. Eventually, they would boobytrap every cache that they couldn't provide security for and stop using anything that they could not determine a source for. |
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Basically because (a) we do not control when or where these 'altered' weapons would be used, and (b) we cannot be sure that any modifications would actually work... So instead we just destroy all the weapons caches & shipments we discover... The damage caused by the shipment getting through is far more than the 'benefit' that would come from sabotaging a few munitions.... The same goes for the GPS locator option, although I don't doubt that that has been considered - if not used - by SF... Once again, it would take knowledge that someone 'important' is receiving the shipment to make bugging it worthwhile a/o demolition in place... |
They have the potential to import munitions from most Middle Eastern countries, along with being able to buy, manufacture, or capture enough to keep them going. As long as there is worldwide support for the jihad, there will be a source of weapons. We could try to bug or sabotage their equipment but that is only successful for a limited period of time and they would figure it out and bypass it pretty quickly. ETA: GPS-type transmitters were put to good use by the SAS in Northern Ireland, but they would have been much less effective if the IRA and the rest were able to resupply themselves with arms and ammunition without relying on what they already had on hand. |
