[combat_boots]

[combat_boots]

Michael Hastings, anyone?

[azkathy]

“Mobile phone to ‘control’ target subject.” Excellent graphics.

[Guenevere]

+1

[Faith65]

bfl

[gnarledmaw]

Hmmm..Irridium bin Laden

[gnarledmaw]

Iridium, Hasan Bin Laden, and the Saudi Bin Laden Group (Mohamed Al Faisal Al Saud?)

[gnarledmaw]

There should be some extensive FR discussions of this back in the day, I remembered how angry I was about this and UBLs brother being wisked out of the country.

"DOD reserves gateway to Iridium's global satellite service; other agencies mayfollow The Defense Department is the largest single customer for Iridium LLC’s financially troubled global satellite communications service. DOD has reserved one of the consortium’s 12 ground gateways capable of serving up to 120,000 users and 1,000 simultaneous calls. The Army, Navy and Air Force are testing ways to integrate the Iridium satellite network into their communications plans. FAA’s plan for using Iridium on Siberian routes is a small deal, Meehan said, but talks are under way about using Iridium as a communications element in broader air traffic control systems. NASA is testing Iridium for its ER-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, the civilian version of the military’s U2-S spy plane, he said. FEMA has shown interest in Iridium telephones for disaster response, said John R. “Ted” O’Brien, vice president of vertical market sales for Iridium. "