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To: JACKRUSSELL
If I were the military, I'd be praying some bonehead would be dumb enough to suddenly fire up a satphone in a remote Afghan village. You might as well take out an ad in Stars and Stripes saying, "Here we are, come kill us!"
7 posted on 04/12/2008 5:30:50 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: John Jorsett

http://www.answers.com/topic/dzhokhar-dudayev-1?method=26&initiator=CANS

President Dudayev was killed on April 21 1996, by two laser-guided missiles when he was using a satellite phone, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which intercepted his phone call. Despite America’s ban on assassinations, it is suspected the NSA was involved in the assassination by providing one of their SIGINT satellites to assist in the triangulation.[3] At the time Dudayev was reportedly talking to a liberal deputy of the Duma in Moscow, reportedly Konstantin Borovoy. Additional aircraft were dispatched (a Su-24MR and a Su-25) to locate Dudayev and fire a guided missile. Exact details of this operation were never released by the Russian government. However, it is known that Russian reconnaissance planes in the area had been monitoring satellite communications for quite some time trying to match Dudayev’s voice signature to the existing samples of his speech. It was a grave mistake on Dudayev’s part to use a satellite phone, especially with his experience as a Soviet Air Force general.


11 posted on 04/12/2008 7:16:25 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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