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MORE ON WARLOCK'S TRICKS [U.S. remotely detonates IED's and incoming enemy mortar rounds in Iraq]
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| Noah Shachtman
Posted on 11/29/2004 11:01:47 PM PST by Southack
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: Certain_Doom
Ha!
No, but his victims certainly had it on their shirts.
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:44:46 AM PST
by
TeleStraightShooter
(The illogical Left in our country wants to do for Iraq what the USA did for Liberia: FORGET IT!)
To: KoRn
Yeah, that was great. Marcinko was riding through Beirut with the device running, and blowing up bomb factories they got near. Sadly, the diplomats at the embassy wouldn't let them use it there, allowing the marines guarding it to be vulnerable. According to his version of events. Fighting terrorists with kid gloves will always yield limited results.
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:51:17 AM PST
by
TeleStraightShooter
(The illogical Left in our country wants to do for Iraq what the USA did for Liberia: FORGET IT!)
To: TeleStraightShooter
"Fighting terrorists with kid gloves will always yield limited results." Very true, and I'm sure all the Marines that got killed there would agree with you too. lol Marcinko was always surprised when he found a diplomat that was actually on OUR side.
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posted on
11/30/2004 9:59:16 AM PST
by
KoRn
To: Lazamataz
"We kinda inferred the existance of these devices, what, about 3 or 4 years ago?"
Our conversations back then were only about what the Israelis had finally obtained from us. There were simply too many Palestinian "work accidents" to be coincidence. The obvious explanation was that the Israelis were juicing the Pali explosive labs with *something*.
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:53:58 AM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Poohbah
"Part of the reason this stuff is classified is that the source for the intel is extremely sensitive. We don't want the bad guys to know just how much of their electromagnetic signalling we detect and analyze. (The second part is the really classified part.)"
True, but remember that there is more to the world than just military intel. I come from the days when Van Eck units were routinely used to display targeted firms' computer screens remotely...quite useful for civilian corporate espionage and counter-intel operations.
Frankly, even the civilian corporate world is engaging in some pretty sophisticated EM sniffing these days. Greed is a powerful motivator for technological advances, and some of that civilian tech will be applicable to military Intel.
And the civilian tech is by definition not "classified."
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:03:32 AM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
True, but remember that there is more to the world than just military intel. I come from the days when Van Eck units were routinely used to display targeted firms' computer screens remotely...quite useful for civilian corporate espionage and counter-intel operations.Collection isn't the sensitive part: detailing what we can and can't analyze is.
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:12:02 AM PST
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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