Shaking it Up

I've been thinking about the psychological war against Al Queda. Driving them out of Afghanistan was obviously the right thing to do. According to this document it has borne fruit, as internal correspondence suggests Al Queda members were questioning OBL's leadership ability and the mandate from Allah.

But I had other, tactical ideas as well.

Why not send 10,000 fake jihadi's to sign up for the war against the west? That would throw a huge wrench into recruiting for jihad because they would start to suspect spies everywhere. It would be a big psychological blow. I guess it would be hard to find 10,000 Muslims willing to do this - but would it really? Would it cost that much more than an extra battalion in Iraq? And who cares if we couldn't trust everyone who was working for us? We give them all limited information and tell them we may call upon them for information. The point would be to radically disrupt recruiting practices, drowning the Jihadists in beauracracy.

Why not go on the market and start selling black market nukes and radiological materials. Shit, we could hire real weapons traders to do it. Everyone who tries to buy a black market nuke gets killed. That would make it awfully risky to buy black market bombs.

Organize protests outside known radical mosques. Encourage peaceful, moderate protests against mosques with known radical factions, exposing them for the violent cesspools they are.