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Hunting the Elusive Kassam
(Jerusalem Post) Arieh O'Sullivan - The IDF, with its digital battlefield that includes flying cameras, has been able to foil about 70% of the Kassam attacks. But it cannot stop them completely, which is what the nation demands. There are those in the IDF who are convinced there is an operational solution to vanquishing the Kassams. The key is eliminating the entire chain of rocket production, but senior officers argue that this is contingent upon better intelligence. Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Doron Tamir, a former chief intelligence officer, noted that while the success of the Shin Bet in the West Bank is a result of the IDF's nearly ubiquitous presence, Gaza is still mostly off-limits. Without a presence on the ground, the sources that can be utilized by agents are weakened. "We all know about the other types of intelligence gathering, the electro-optic and eavesdropping, but it is the Humint [spies] and the agents who bring in the intelligence. When you control the territory it is easier," Tamir told Army Radio.