Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/12

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Subject: [Leica] defining terrorism
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:13:20 -0700
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> I have NO problem defining terrorism.
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Perhaps we can define what a terrorist is.
Someone who's going to be martyred in the very near future; hours to days.
Someone whose time is at hand.
A pair of coordinates.	Poof.
Martyrdom is the objective. The U.S.A. and the free world will be happy to oblige.
To me what has happened is a crisis of intelligence.
We've let our intelligence lapse. We don't understand our enemy. His
motivations. His language.
Satellites do not replace people on the ground. People on the inside.
It's the low tech stuff that we've let slide. People.

Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/

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