Posted on 05/25/2006 3:17:28 PM PDT by jmc1969
No mobile phones, no landlines, no Internet – that is the message anti-U.S. rebels have recently received from their commanders.
The message is believed to have even spread in neighboring states as part of the package of instructions foreign fighters receive before heading to Iraq.
“You are not to use electronic communication or even land lines when communicating,” said a leaflet which the groups distributed recently.
The instructions are apparently a response to what are described as ‘moderate successes’ U.S. troops have achieved in the past few weeks in their fight to flush out rebel cells.
Internet material, mobile messages and phone calls which the rebels use are now the U.S. military’s major source of intelligence.
“The U.S. army has carried out successful raids in the light of the tips obtained from the Internet and mobile phones,” said a source close to a major armed group involved in fighting the Americans.
“Therefore we have decided to rely on oral or written messages,” he said.
He said U.S. technicians and intelligence officers now have the ability to “intercept electronic messages and trace their source … They have also developed quick measures to respond.”
Geez, I wonder how they found out we had this capability?
Hats off to our seditious press. Thanks, guys.
Send them some notes on when and where to meet Allah.
Smoke signals. Yeah, that's the ticket!
This has actually been the case for well over a year now (to a large degree) in Iraq - (and through written courier is about the only way are enemies are communicating in the Stan/Pak border regions).
What a huge burden for their side, deprived of modern communications.
Is this a fatwah or just a suggestion?
And people say we aren't hurting them?
Al Queida reduced to clay tablets and smoke signals?
Written codes will be captured and broken, verbal messages
will be garbled, and they all will take TIME to convey!
Time is not on their side.
By forcing the savages to give up modern media, we retard their ability to communicate in a timely and effective manner. That makes them even more vulnerable to our tactics. And it handicaps them when they face an enemy that can communicate accurately and instantly.
Take out their carrier pigeon fleet and they're reduced to Camel Express.
Although it might seem bad to have the enemy switch to communications we can't intercept electronically, it is not without advantages for us. We can't monitor every possible means of electronic communication; if the enemy overestimates our abilities in that regard, they may limit themselves more than they have to.
Even if 100% of the electronic communcations were fed through government monitoring computers, the government would still need some luck to usefully intercept the enemy plans. By contrast, if the enemy has to fall back to using couriers, we benefit, period.
Good maybe now they'll take up the use of bullhorns.
Without some reliable form of communication, an army is pretty ineffective.
Staff at the NYT are so proud of themselves.
What the hey is that doo-dad thing there?
Nnnnutcracker?
Bin Laden to Ahmed 1: "Go and blow up the tunnell"
Ahmed 1 to Ahmed 2: "Go and blow up the camel"
Ahmed 2 to Ahmed 3: "Go and bow to a camel"
Ahmed 3 to Ahmed 4: "Glow and boat to a camelleon"
Ahmed 4 to Ahmed 5: "Grow and bloat to Boy George"
Ahmed 5 to Ahmed 6: "Eat ddddynamite and buy Gore"
Ahmed 6 Thinks: "Allah is great, but I can't figer out this code, better phone the boss"
Baaaada Biiing, kabboooommmmm!
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