CIA using missile strikes to `tickle' terrorists

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Central Intelligence Agency is using strikes against enemy targets to learn how the groups respond when attacked, the agency's director said Wednesday.

Speaking at the Air Force Association's annual conference, Michael Hayden said the clandestine agency is trying to "tickle" enemy groups to provoke a reaction, often with missile strikes targeting just an individual.

"We use military operations to excite the enemy, prompting him to respond. In that response we learn so much," said Hayden, a retired Air Force general who has led the CIA since 2006.

Hayden said the CIA is working closely with the military in places such as Iraq's Anbar province, where American troops have fought Sunni insurgents. That experience helped CIA officers develop a strategy to engage Sunni tribal leaders, which Hayden said has contributed to a recent drop in violence in Iraq.

The agency "picked up insights we would not have had" by working with American forces, Hayden said.

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[TomInTib]

1. This is a pre-emptive defense of civilian casualties.

The "enemy groups" (whatever that is) figured this crap out years ago.

[Nihil]

18. Let's face it, nobody gives a shit about the other war crimes ...

... so why not just advertise that they'll keep committing
terrorism until the "other" terrorists give up?

:crazy:

[BadgerKid]

2. Interesting qualifiers there.

OFTEN with missile strikes
SUCH AS Iraq's Anbar province

I wonder how many "strikes" are tested against Americans at home.

[The Liberal Thinker]

6. You're wondering how many times the United States strikes its own population?

I'm gonna say... it doesn't.

[bemildred]

3. What a tool. nt

[inanna]

4. K & R n/t

[truthisfreedom]

5. So they're announcing it on the internet. R-i-i-ight.

Exactly what the CIA would do.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

16. That was my first thought also. This is BULLSHIT.

[KansDem]

7. And just how much is this tickle fest costing the US taxpayers? (nt)

[libodem]

8. Sounds like how

catfish hunters catch fish with their hands.

[frylock]

10. noodling

[Xipe Totec]

9. Sounds like Erasmus of the Synchronized Worlds

an insane AI robot that tries to understand what art is, and paints by flinging live humans onto his canvass and smearing their guts around with his metal finger.

[bluesmail]

11. We'ew regressing, badly. Agents provocateurs.

[semillama]

12. Like Al Qaeda isn't laughing enough at us, now they want to 'tickle' them. n/t

[bluedem77]

13. "tickle?"

That's some term. Never heard it before.

[unkachuck]

14. I wonder....

....how many innocent women, children and old people get 'tickled' in the process....

[Canuckistanian]

15. Yes, that worked SO WELL in Afghanistan in the 1980's, didn't it?

And the Afghan people loved us for it, didn't they?

Jesus, for an "intelligence agency" they sure don't.... well you know the rest.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Oh stop...just stop

:rofl:
no, really, stop....that tickles !!!

:rofl:
Please, no more... I'll get hic cups.


:rofl: :rofl:

My sides are hurting...too much tickling...

:rofl: :rofl:

No...really...stop...

You're killing me !!!