Redefining hard intelligence

I love this story. How do you get a muslim male that has multiple wives to sell out his people. Give him a woody of course. Viagra a new tool to fight insurgents.

American intel operations have scored some successes in Afghanistan by helping tribal leaders score some as well. What do you get for the tribal leader that has everything, including multiple wives? A bit of youth in a little blue pill apparently works wonders for friendship — and cooperation:

The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. Viagra.
“Take one of these. You’ll love it,” the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.
The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes — followed by a request for more pills.
For U.S. intelligence officials, this is how some crucial battles in Afghanistan are fought and won. While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of the country’s roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations.

The success of this strategy makes some sense. People seem to think that we toss cash at people, but as Joby Warrick points out in this report, that can quickly compromise sources. People who get large sums of money tend to flash it, and it becomes clear who works with Americans and who terrorists will avoid like the plague in the future.
Intel operatives look for other, less obvious enticements, and few things would be more private in Muslim tribal life than bedroom performance. Many older tribal chiefs have multiple wives but may not have the physical ability to keep pace. Few items would make the kind of impression that Viagra does for men in that position, and it’s highly unlikely that they’d be chatting about it at the mosque. It’s practically designed for the mission.

3 Palestinians held for raping UN worker

Three Palestinian teens were under arrest Thursday for allegedly raping and robbing a 60-year old UNIFIL worker in her east Jerusalem home, police said.
The three suspects, including two minors, were arrested after the woman, who is from a Scandinavian country, filed a complaint with police, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
A fourth suspect remains at large.
The four Palestinians, who are residents of the West Bank and are not connected with the UN institution, are alleged to have carried out the December 4 attack and robbery at the woman's Beit Hanina home.
The two minors were remanded in custody by a Jerusalem court on Thursday for seven days, while the third suspect has been ordered held for eight days, police said.
The police plan to press charges against the suspects when they complete their investigation.

So, this white Infidel was over there helping the poor animalstinians and this is what she gets? Robbed and Raped. She is sixty years old. Was she dressed provacatively? Was she trying to convert muslims to Christianity? Probably not. All muslim men are animals. Two of them are minors. I wonder where they learned to hate Westerners? Israel needs to push all of the arabs out of Gaza, Judea and Sumaria. Let the muslim world take care of them.

Rockets Fired At Israel Ahead Of Aid Transfer

Just hours before a convoy of humanitarian aid was to be sent to the Gaza Strip, Gaza militants Friday fired a barrage of rockets at southern Israel, putting the transfer in jeopardy, media reports said.Five rockets and two mortar rounds were fired before dawn, but caused no casualties, an Israeli military spokesman said. Violence in and around Gaza has flared since a six-month ceasefire ended on December 19, and escalated dramatically Wednesday when nearly 60 rockets and mortars were fired into Israel.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Thursday rejected a call for restraint from Egypt and vowed the Jewish state would strike back at the Hamas rulers of the besieged Palestinian enclave.Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a "last-minute" appeal directly to Gazans to get Hamas leaders to stop the rocket and mortar attacks."Don't let Hamas, which is acting against the values of Islam, put you in danger," he urged. "Stop them. Stop your enemies and ours. Tell them to stop firing on innocent civilians."Meanwhile, it was reported that Israel has begun transferring humanitarian aid into Gaza despite the mortar fire on Israel's southern communities. The army said the first of an expected 90 trucks have started to deliver medicine, fuel, cooking gas and other vital goods to coastal strip. The move comes ahead of an expected Israeli incursion into Gaza to stop rocket launchings from the coastal strip.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided late Thursday to open the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings Friday to allow the transfer of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip as part of its policy of avoiding a humanitarian crisis there.

What is wrong with the Israeli's? They are under fire from the very people that they are sending aid to. They are sending aid as the rockets and mortars are falling. Why? Just let these people starve and die. They are waging jihad against Israel and the West will not believe this.