Posted on 05/25/2004 7:29:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
"just turn off the towers."
Best point on this thread.
Well. there always is at some point or another.
Even the Wehrmacht's high command saw the light but by then the impetus to unconditional surrender was overwhelming.
Huge news, tho!
Couple Theorys Here:
A) We heard about the scud missile shipment or kimjongs train route (from our big ship in the pacific listening to all air coms)
B) Nextel uses satellites in space (thats how 2 way radio works).... no towers
Maybe it wasn't an attempt, but the locals using the idea to serve political expediencies.
Who knows what toys our boys have? No more than a reasoned feeling, but IMO the entire worldwidecomms network is virtually transparent to us, perhaps not all the time or with total comprehensiveness, but more likely for specific, targeted, chronologically sensitive applications.
Anything is possible, depending on how much work you want to put into it. Analog phones are just FM radios, so, depening on the phone you use, a scanner could recieve a signal and close a relay to set off a bomb. GSM would be harder, but if you could find an otherwise unused GSM frequency band in the area, you could do a very crude radio detonator with a GSM handset. Personally, given the blast radius, I'd prefer the high power output of an analog handset.
The bottom line is, though, for a sploit as big as this, you could have a radio custom built. That was a pantload of explosives, and even if they came from a Chinese supplier to Wal Mart, had to cost more than a big bag of tube socks.
Nextel PTT is digital trunked radio, which is, in turn, pretty close to a phone system - it has call setup, switches, etc. It most certainly does use terrestrial radio transcievers.
That is such an interesting picture. notice how each leader's attache intently studies the other leader. there is some high end psychological profiling being done here.
Is there a newspaper in the photo for confirmation?
I can't even imagine Koreans without cell phones.
Possible report of B2 taking off from whiteman AFB aprox. 12-16 hours before the report of the explosion was out?
Another thing we have to look at is the size and crater of the explosion. Everyone who knows bombs looks at the pics and thinks either daisy cutter or MOAB. Whats the weight of a MOAB 21-27,000lb? The B2's max payload is 40,000 could they have modified the Spirit to drop these yet? Because last time cutters were dropped was tora bora and they were dropped from c-130's.
Yes. Thanks
That would depend on the technical savy of the bomber.
I noticed that also....I wonder if the aide of the Japanese President is an intel guy.
TigerLikesRooster: They are vague about it, aren't they?
From the article:
"The North Korean National Security Agency has investigated the incident since it took place and concluded that rebellious forces had plotted the explosions targeting the exclusive train of Kim Jong-il."The article's source appears to be identifying the origin of the attack as coming from within the NK government itself and more specifically from within their own armed forces. People from outside the nation would not be labeled "rebellious" and neither private citizens nor ordinary government officials of the country would be labeled "forces".
--Boot Hill
That level of keen insight tells me as much about you as it does about the article!
--Boot Hill
--Boot Hill
I believe those are translators looking at the lips of the other leader to ensure they pick-up every word...
ok thanks. just caught the expressions and was intrigued.
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