How to trace terrorists?

[Pekka]

Inspired by another thread of plane hijacking, this thread is about stopping terrorists. Also I have guilty feelings because I created imaginery plan of attack and it scared me too!

So how do we stop these people? Let's get into more detail how can we get good intel information.

I think it is clear that there are several terrorists IN the country right now and have been for a longer time.
Now how do we figure out who these people are? Forget PC crap, we need to find out so they won't strike first.

Any ideas?

[SlowwHand]

Take a piece of chalk, and carefully make an outline around their dead carcass.

[Pekka]

I think we need to tap every mosque there is, even if it sounds racists. Secretly of course. Then guys listening what's going on with special investigators of arabian descent who knows lots of things that is not said directly and can pick up important stuff.

Then we need to figure out the native Americans, be it white, black or brown. Special attention to the whities though, because they might be dangerous with better access to places. We need to profile folks that are likely to join terrorist orgs, what type of people they are.
We can not scan the whole country and follow every person fitting to this category. It can be used as a good reference later.

We need to study all the family histories of terrorist suspects, so we can trace the blood of them back to the US, and by this I mean the folks who are natives and born in the US. Scan them through, and decide which one are going under surveillance 24/7.

Inflitrate to the mother countries good. Find out what the are planning.

Find every single person that is rich or powerful, that is symphatetic to these ****ers. See if they are donating any money.

Donate money to them. Infiltrate to normal population in mother countries, and try to donate money to them.

Infiltrate and play the role of international arms dealer.
Do it from Russia. When you get into negotiations, hint that you might get some bigger stuff. Like nukes, chemical weapons etc, that are missing in Russia after SU falled. Not too eager, be patient so they trust you at least a little bit.

I bet many of these are already done, add to the list!

[Pekka]

Sloww, Come on, you know this stuff.. how can we trace them? If they are secrets what methods are used, just give an idea of what kind of stuff we can do, or what is even possible.

[curtsibling]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Take a piece of chalk, and carefully make an outline around their dead carcass.

You have to kill them first.

And after vaping them with a daisy cutter, drawing that outline may be a tad tricky.

[SlowwHand]

I'm working on it now.
I can't tell you specifics, or just like UFO's, I'd have to kill you after telling you.
I like you too much for that.

I can say this. I don't think it proper to take fringe groups as the standard, of anything.

[Pekka]

Sloww, I completely understand. Keep doing the job


infiltration is a great option, but is very very difficult with these people. I bet they are doing it and have been for long, starting now would be too late anyway.

Also we need to keep our eye on the people who seem to be weak terrorists. We follow him and see all his connections first, and when we get all the info we really need, we'll walk up to him and make an offer to switch sides. If he is weak, we might be able to do that.
We get one of them high ranking people in religion of what he is practicing telling that he's doing the right thing, and pressure him veeeery much. Make sure he won't tell anyone of their own. Now, I bet he won't go for it anyway, he'd rather kill himself. But what we can now do is carefully monitor his every move to see how he alarms everyone that cops know stuff, and who he alarms, and how it works. We might be lucky enough to discover more terrorists now. We don't let them get away of couse, but just see how they operate. If they get dangerous, like hurrying their strike, then we strike immidetaly. If no danger, we just monitor them. When we are sure we knoe everything there is to know, we get them.

[FrustratedPoet]

Infiltrate and play the role of international arms dealer.

[CerberusIV]

Look for men of middle eastern appearance with beards who pray regularly, carry copies of the Koran and have previously attended mosques associated with radical clerics.

Of course they won't all be terrorists but better to harass ten thousand innocent people that miss executing one guilty one.

[Cookie Monster]

First the idiots of the world need to be educated.

Then the absolute truth MUST BE EXPOSED. Then and only then will terrorism stop. The masses will rise once the truth is revealed.

[Pekka]

Make them UNPOPULAR in arab world (if terrorist are arabs, terrorists are of every race and colour anyway, al qaeda seems mostly arab though). Cut their support.

Use lots of propaganda for this, because symphatisers don't go easily switching sides.

Establish a fake terrorist group. See who wants to do business with you. See who tries to connect you.

[Pekka]

FrustratedPoet, What?

[Pekka]

Haupt, this is a thread of tracing and revealing terrorists, not why there is terrorism. I know they are linked together, but it's a long debate how to do that, and it's not about tracing terrorists.

[FrustratedPoet]

It just looks like you've been watching too many cheesy TV shows. When you said that I imagined you wearing a big fur hat and speaking in a bad russian accent negotiating with some Middle Eastern guys to buy some weapons. The thought made me laugh.

[Pekka]

FrustratedPoet, Well I just think what ever you can do, you should do.
Why should we do it badly? Of course we use Russian people for this! And they shouldn't approach anyone.
They should just be, and make rumours, so possibly they will be contacted, so it is not so obvious. It's just a hook in the sea, waiting for fish to catch. Why not do it if possible, beats watching through binoculars and trying to lip read every suspicious person at downtown NY.

edit: but the image you gave my head makes me laugh too