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Video Phones confiscated???
Posted on 03/28/2003 7:08:57 AM PST by ipa2tf
Anyone heard that the US Military has confiscated some French made video phones that embedded reporters are using? The French have provided Iraq with codes that enabled them to track the phones.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: embeddedreport; videophone; warcorrespondents
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:08:57 AM PST
by
ipa2tf
To: ipa2tf; Admin Moderator
Do you have a source for this information?
To: ipa2tf
heard it on CBS radio...Frence were already warned but did not adhere
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:09:58 AM PST
by
cactusSharp
(( if pc skills named us,I'd be backspace delete))
To: ipa2tf
It would not suprise me if the French had tried to do something like this. But there have been so many crazy rumors and false finds, that I think we should give this story 24 hours before we even touch it.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:10:55 AM PST
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: ipa2tf
Post a link, or stop spreading rumors.
What makes you think Iraq has enough technical assests
to do such a thing!?!
You made this up didn't you....?
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:11:40 AM PST
by
konaice
To: ipa2tf
If true...
This really needs to be put out more prominently. I expect the US to make a showcase out of the UN, France, Germany, Russia, China, and all of the other anti-american goons.
I demand the UN be dismantled.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:12:26 AM PST
by
anobjectivist
(The natural rights of people are more basic than those currently considered)
To: xm177e2
This reeks of Urban Legend, but could be true. I'm sure the good people at Snopes.com are on the case.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:13:05 AM PST
by
section9
(You will all be shot unless you download the Saddam screensaver...)
To: konaice; Admin Moderator
ipa2tf signed up 2002-11-18.
Odd that this was his or her very first and only post, a rumor.
To: konaice
no konaice, my father heard it on CBS radio this morning, I am trying to verify it.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:14:07 AM PST
by
ipa2tf
To: Cultural Jihad
Hall monitors are geeks.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:15:36 AM PST
by
OWK
To: OWK
Rumor-mongers are freaks.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:17:39 AM PST
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: ipa2tf
Duct tape the phones to food aide trucks and see what happens? Any bad or evil act has an equally if not greater countermeasure.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:18:46 AM PST
by
blackdog
(American Lamb, from American farmers to your table. Never ever offered to the French.)
To: section9
We do know that satellite phones can be pinpointed, remember we used to have Bin Laden"s SAT phone until the MEDIA told them about it.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:19:10 AM PST
by
Mister Baredog
((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
To: ipa2tf
Inmarsat deploys extra satellite in Middle East [excerpt]
http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=32460813
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - Global satellite communications company Inmarsat said on Tuesday it has deployed a fifth satellite to the Middle East region to handle the expected increased demand from the news media and aid agencies as a war in Iraq looms.
News organizations are one of the biggest users of the company's Global Area Network, which allows television networks like ABC, the BBC, NBC and CNN to connect videophones and run live broadcasts from the field.
...
Inmarsat, whose owners include big European telecommunications companies such as Britain's BT Group Plc (ISEL:BT), Deutsche Telekom , France Telecom (SBF:FTE) and Norway's Telenor (OSL:TEL), also provides satellite links for governments, including the United States, as well as aid agencies like the Red Cross.
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:20:44 AM PST
by
syriacus
(Cultural Diversity..... Iraqis using WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST...as human shields.)
To: ipa2tf
This would not surprise me in the least.
To: ipa2tf
It may not be that the Iraqis are able to track these phones so much as our own HARM missiles tracking them. Who wants an embedded reporter in their unit when he's using an "enemy" phone and thus attracting the attention of the local JSTARS?
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posted on
03/28/2003 7:29:43 AM PST
by
Redcloak
(All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
To: OWK
Self-avowed libertarian ideologues are freaks. ; )
To: homeschool mama
Fundamental to the way cell phones operate is there are cell sites (those towers with three sets of three antennas in a trangle) which hand off to one another whichever calls are closet to each cell site, as the caller roams around. Which cell site is taking which call, and in which direction from the cell site center it originates, is knowable. If the French phones use Iraqi infrastructure to operate, then the Iraqis can track phone movements, which are tantamount to troop movements if the phones are with troops.
(The FBI tracks US citizens by this method within the US. If your cell phone is on and within any service area, they know where it is - you don't have to be making a call for them to track you. They have caught criminals this way, but the privacy implications are chilling.)
To: ipa2tf
read and study later
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