Monday, May 2, 2011

Wild guess

The New York Times headline was screaming "Bin Laden Is Dead, Obama Says"  And all other headlines and news channels were making useless noise as always.

It seems no one is paying attention is that this operation was carried by a small group of trained people. What was not achieved by huge army with all modern technology was actually achieved by a small set of people. Making an important point that to kill or capture serious terrorist does not require a regular army combing through hostile ares, it only increases the over all collateral damage (Afghanistan) without giving any actual benefit. The effective strategy is to send few highly skilled people after the intended target. This is a old battle tactics used to take out snipers. Perhaps going forward there will be much discussion on the learning and observation from this result.

Though not sure, let me bet that when the hue and cry subsides, it will come to light that, ‘it was basically an assassination of Osama carried out by the CIA under the executive order of the president.’ that’s how they got him.