There is growing evidence that information gained from two high value targets, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, may have gotten the ball rolling on gathering the intelligence required to identify the bin Laden couriers who ultimately led us to Osama.
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He interrogated suspected high-value targets at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan, where he is currently stationed.
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And then there is the perennial contention of critics that carriers concentrate too much capability in a handful of vulnerable, high-value targets.
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The high-value targets in big data are invariably human: highly adaptive adversaries such as terrorists and cybercriminals whose ingenuity frustrates even the most advanced algorithms.
As Iraqi forces take responsibility for more of their own territory, coalition forces can concentrate on training Iraqis and hunting down high-value targets, like the terrorist Zarqawi and his associates.
In February and March, I conducted a series of interviews with generals, ex-intelligence officials and security analysts in Pakistan, after another set of high profile raids led to certain high value Taliban targets ending up in Pakistani custody.
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That attack made it clear that the United States and other open societies required a new approach: We recognized that our countries are too big, too open, too full of high-value targets for us to defend them against terrorists.
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As Mr Alani puts it, the network differs from all other militant Islamist movements in its global reach, its focus on very high-value targets and its skill at covering its traces by spiriting agents from one country to another.
Such a capability would allow us to hold at risk some of the 10, 000 concealed and hardened command-and-control bunkers, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) production and storage facilities and other buried high-value targets that have been built by potential adversaries.
And the good news, he says, is that on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA and U.S. military are working closely together on leads so they can go after high-value targets (that's the lingo for the baddest of the bad guys).
"If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets, and President Musharraf will not act, we will, " Obama said.
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"Suicide attacks should be at high value and important targets because a brave son of Islam should not be used for low value and useless targets, " the code of conduct said.
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