U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With ‘Bait’

Sep 24, 2007 12:29


Originally published at Mikel Grenzner.com. You can comment here or there.

From the staff writers at WaPo:

“Baiting is putting an object out there that we know they will use, with the intention of destroying the enemy,” Capt. Matthew P. Didier, the leader of an elite sniper scout platoon attached to the 1st Battalion of the 501st Infantry Regiment, said in a sworn statement. “Basically, we would put an item out there and watch it. If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the individual as I saw this as a sign they would use the item against U.S. Forces.”

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