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To: SirRealist who wrote (1445)	9/26/2001 10:02:23 AM
From: Jerry in Omaha	Read Replies (4) of 281500

SirRealist, <<Hitchens sure blistered his critics.>> Hell, those were his friends! <VBG> Morning news revealing terrible handling of intelligence by US agencies. What the hell haven't these guys been smoking? The war on drugs has stupefied our best and brightest like a contact high in reverse! Gin up the ol' imagination boys! We've got 30 guys in custody all of whom tried or succeeded in obtaining haz mat commercial truck driver licenses. Now what does that tell us? It tells us that when you can replace the Silicon Valley's hardware, as used in smart bombs, with the Bekka Valley's suicidal wetware we'd better start thinking outside the bloody box. We are facing a severe crises of imagination! The morning news tells of a bin Laden plot against George the First with explosive loaded suicidal hang glider terrorists. When will Al Quaeda start deploying HALO* terrorists with explosives replacing parachutes? Are our security people opening up their minds to these kinds of possibilities? If ever there was a therapeutic use for mind bending LSD I think we're there now. <g> (All in the right "set and setting," of course. I'm not suggesting lacing the coffee at Langley or anything.) Any knee jerk military response we launch will have been anticipated by these highly imaginative lunatics. I like poster E's Marshall plan suggestion, or something akin to it. The only problem is that much of the world considers our aid programs the equivalent of the free gifts and premiums commercial interests often use to ramp up a marketing campaign. Aid and comfort offered as a part of our war strategy should come with absolutely no strings attached or even in view. Jerry in Omaha * HALO -- High Altitude Low Opening. The preferred insertion technique of sneaky pete special ops types. Team members are deployed breathing oxygen at altitudes above 25,000 feet and free fall to about 250 feet !yikes! before deploying their chutes. HALD -- High Altitude Low Detonation. A possible terrorist weapon. A person skilled in free fall techniques can be as accurate as the best laser guided smart bomb or Tomahawk in our arsenal. Outfitted with an aerodynamic jumpsuit and an impact detonation switch a HALD jumper could move up to 30 miles or more after deployment. I used to jump with 175 pounds of gear but I expected to survive the jump. Imagine a suicidal HALD jumper with 300 pounds of C4 and his eyes on a big giant concrete breast. Home to mama!

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