How to catch a terrorist....

Ok here is a thought...well, not one related to camp life or anything but something that came to my mind because....well, as a dishwasher for the last 2 and a half weeks and another week and a half to go, I seem to have a lot of time on my hands and I let my mind wander. A dangerous thing to let my mind wander cause I usually come up with the weirdest and probably the most unrealistic things. I mentioned this idea to a couple co-workers and I guess they are used to my strange ideas (though I thought my idea of hooking up the treadmills to a power generator and making the guys in packs of 10 run on them for 2 hours of their shift to power the camp had double benefits for all...power for the camp and get them to exercise and lose some weight) cause they just looked at me, shook their heads and walked away. I have gone over it in my mind and can not seem to find a problem. Here it is.



How to find any terrorist leader in the world quickly



You pick a terrorist leader that you have been looking for and then every single terrorist attack in the world that is done, you put it through the media that it was this leader/organization that did it. For example, Osama Bin Laden...seems the Americans are having a devil of a time finding him. So, there is a terrorist bombing in Iraq that kills a number of people, the papers say it was him that did it with his name and terrorist organization all over the papers. Possibly even go so far as doctoring up a video to broadcast with him (well a look alike or computer generated one) claiming responsibility for the act; three gun men go into a bank anywhere in Asia and gun down a lot of innocent people, we say they were part of the organization and even have a video with the same double Bin Laden saying he put those men up to it and it was all him that came up with the plan; another school yard shooting somewhere in America, Bin Laden again on video saying his organization put the boys up to it and it was all his master planning cause he is the ultimate genius.



How will this work? Well, I figure that a terrorist attack not only is used to strike fear into those around them but it is also a calling card of sorts so that an organization can gain that power to negotiate their wants on the world. They organization wants to be known for their work so that their wants or goals can be accomplished sooner. If they didn't then why would most organizations call to claim responsibility for the action once an action has happened? So, imagine how angered the organization would be if after all that cost of both money and time the plan happened and then at the last second it is told to the world that someone else did it for their own stated gains. Kind of like you spending months building an addition on your house and then when you bring your friends and family over to show it off your cousin (who did absolutely nothing) steps up and takes credit for the whole thing and you can not prove him wrong and he gets all the praise and admiration.



Who knows, perhaps if this is done enough and the right organizations have their terrorist activity credit taken away from them perhaps they will start to hunt down Osama themselves so that they can prove it wasn't Osama doing it. Of course, it being a terrorist organization, the world isn't not going to believe it if they come forward with a video saying "yeah, we found Osama and he said he didn't do that but he said it was us..so yeah, we did it, not him...trust us". So what will the terrorists have to do for believability? Produce Osama either alive in the hands of the country that wants him (like the Americans) or produce Osama's body so that all credit for upcoming acts can not be claimed by him.



By doing this the terrorist organization leaders become the most hated people on the planet, not just by the countries that they assault but by the terrorist underworld as well. Like John Spartan (played by Stallone) said in Demolition Man "you gotta send a psychopath to catch a psychopath".



As for the claims that it would be manipulating the media and we have to trust the media and can't have them broadcast false information. Why would that be so? I mean, so far the media has built the reputation for being trusting and truthful, so who better to dupe the terrorist and public with lies than the media themselves?


When it comes to the actual terrorists doing the attacks, I am not saying that we don't punish the terrorists that do the act but capture them, put them on trial and all but basically make it known to all that it was the terrorist person you are after that put them up to it. Of course when they say "no no it was *insert their terrorist leader/organization*" the media just omits that part and says that we can't trust them cause, hey, they are terrorists and lie on a regular basis.

Any big problems with this plan? I think must have been in camp too long and brain gone to mush cause this all makes sense to me.