Osama bin Laden cannot be found, yet we are fairly sure where he hides. The ancient Silk Roads, which were over land trade routes from Asia to the Middle East are thousands of miles long and they are still there to this day. Now then with the Silk Roads still existing thru Afghanistan, we can control these by satellite and monitor those on the road where the flow of drugs move in and out and supplies into or out of the areas in which Bin Laden may or may not be.

By using satellites and ground buried RFID active tags we can see if anyone crosses at each virtual checkpoint. Thus we can see if they missed a checkpoint and then we know there is something there in between and well that is where their cave is. He who controls the road, controls the drugs. And owns the region, instead of check points there would be buried devices near the road that trigger satellite contact.

By controlling these roads we can control the regions. Eventually big roads could be built to handle larger traffic, and larger arteries developed to carry more blood flow to the region. Thus the economic vitality would be better even if let's say in five years the drugs from the region would no longer be the biggest source of money?

http://www.womenaid.org/silkrdwomen.htm

I can tell you having studied maps and from my flying experience that it is incredible the difference in economic development when adequate transportation is made. Those types of infrastructures are about the best darn thing you can do for a country, region, county or even city or town. So in Afghanistan your project could literally fuel the coffers of that country and promote trade, it would truly be a godsend. Now then with that said and having talked to many academics, economic development experts and leaders about these things it seems obvious to me that rebuilding controllable arteries for travel and trade can in fact turn the an impoverished nation into a country of means. Meaning we can catch Osama bin Laden and simultaneously bring that region out of the stone age. Consider all this in 2006.

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