About 1,000 tribesmen were meeting on Oct. 10 and had just decided to form a lashkar, when the suicide bomber, armed with perfect intelligence for a pre-emptive strike, killed more than 100 tribesmen and wounded many more.
Because it is the place in a hyper-regulated Europe where people still debate with perfect intelligence what, really, the red in a stoplight might mean.
We may live in a world of the unexpected and undeterminable, where "there is no such thing as perfect intelligence," but we "are not at the mercy of fat tails," Bremmer and Keat tell us.
A spokesman for Dr. ElBaradei said he responded to this assertion by pointing out that "no verification system would be able to detect the kind of low-level activities Libya was conducting short of sheer luck or some perfect intelligence tip".
Egland decided King was the perfect "intelligence asset," sending the marine and his wife into to the Bethesda medical center to spread the word.
We're talking automated price adjustments being available to any merchant, perfect intelligence on the real estate market, hyper-targeted lead data, and so much more.
Obviously there is a positive correlation between the two but you should never mistake grades as a perfect representation of intelligence.
Concepts of "network-centric warfare," "rapid, decisive operations," "shock and awe" and "full-spectrum dominance" suggested that near-perfect intelligence would enable precise military operations and point a straight line to success.
Both agencies, he said, "have invested a lot in this country and they have people loyal to them, and this is a perfect time for the intelligence apparatus of the neighboring countries to ignite people's fiery emotions which would lead them to violence".
"What you have here," said one official familiar with the intelligence, "is a perfect meeting of interests -- the North had what the Pakistanis needed, and the Pakistanis had a way for Kim Jong Il to restart a nuclear program we had stopped".
