Filed under: Iraq, Minorities, Osama Bin Laden — Michael van der Galien on March 12, 2007 @ 7:56 am CET
The Australian has interesting news (article from The Sunday Times): “an elite group of native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders.”
The name of the unit is Shadow Wolves and has been created in the early 1970s. The Shadow Wolves normally track “smugglers along the U.S. border with Mexico.” The article goes on to explain:
Harold Thompson, a Navajo Indian, and Gary Ortega, from the Tohono reservation, are experts at “cutting sign”, the traditional Indian method of finding and following minute clues from a barren landscape. They can detect twigs snapped by passing humans or hair snagged on a branch and tell how long a sliver of food may have lain in the dirt.
As AJ Strata points out, it is a bit surprising that “the US waited this long to bring them in”, but better better late than never of course.
The article quotes Robert Gates as saying: “If I were Osama bin Laden, I’d keep looking over my shoulder.”
That sounds about right.
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1 ChenZhen's Chamber
March 12, 2007 @ 9:20 am CETShadow Wolves To Hunt Bin Laden
I found this interesting story on the Digg wire: Native American trackers to hunt bin Laden
WASHINGTON: An elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders.
The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was…
2 Gray
March 13, 2007 @ 1:14 am CETGood story, Mike. Why isn’t thisall over the frontpages of the MSM? Bloggers like you make the difference.
[I’m drunk, so don’t do a stepdance on the table now. However, I guess I’ll still like this story tomorrow
]
3 Michael van der Galiën
March 13, 2007 @ 6:22 am CETThanks Gray - yes, media should spend more attention to it… On the other hand; I of course only heard about it because one MSM newspaper did report about it…