Posted on 03/24/2002 12:01:56 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:05:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
March 24, 2002 -- Cave-dwelling warlord Osama bin Laden used a high-tech satellite phone, bought in the United States, to coordinate the 1998 terrorist strikes on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, it was reported.
Bin Laden obtained the $15,000 Compact-M phone through an intermediary in London and used it from 1996 to 1998, according to American court documents obtained by The Sunday Times of London.
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