[Aric2000]

For the first time, the US air force used new precision-guided bombs capable of locating and destroying fiber optic systems.

Yeah, right, uh huh!! Sure thing, and batboy is stalking Saddam right now with a saddam seeking missile.

Let's get real, with fiber optics, there is no heat, there is no electromagnetic field, there is light going through a tube for god's sake. There is NO way to find it unless you know where they were buried. There isn't even metal, unless it's armored, which I seriously doubt.

Debka is so full of it, about as reliable as the tabloids.

[PoisedWoman]

Let's get real, with fiber optics, there is no heat, there is no electromagnetic field, there is light going through a tube for god's sake. There is NO way to find it unless you know where they were buried

You just shot down the only interesting thing in this report, the part I'd hoped was true. Exceedingly cool to be able to search and destroy fiber optics. Mabe ve haff vays to work with light waves?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is now this report:

KURDISH WAR: The Northern Axis Against Iraq

[section9]

Let's get real, with fiber optics, there is no heat, there is no electromagnetic field, there is light going through a tube for god's sake. There is NO way to find it unless you know where they were buried. There isn't even metal, unless it's armored, which I seriously doubt.

Which is why I believe that this is true. Of course JDAM devices can't home in on fibre optic lines. But you can find out their location through the use of HUMINT, which the Mossad has in Iraq in spades. Find a node point, and crater the whole area. You're bound to disrupt the line.

BTW, the part about the Turks is true, I suspect. Reuters had this short blip about the Turks, which was immediately spiked, I guess. Freeper a_Turk followed up with his report from Turkey that a Turkish commando brigade had captured that airport.

Saddam hasn't struck back because he simply doesn't want to attack the Turk. That would be a very stupid thing for him to do.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[ASA Vet]

Let's get real, with fiber optics, there is no heat,
there is no electromagnetic field, there is light going
through a tube for god's sake. There is NO way to find it
unless you know where they were buried. There isn't even metal,
unless it's armored, which I seriously doubt.

Where the end of a optical fiber cable terminates
(they don't run forever,) there will be a repeater/booster.
The optical signal is converted into an electronic signal,
amplified, and then converted back into an optical signal
which is transmitted into the next cable run.

Those repeater/boosters are electronic devices which will have an electronic signature.

[Eala]

Let's get real, with fiber optics, there is no heat,...

You beat me to it; my BS detector went off big-time with the "fiber-optic detection" business.

[stylin_geek]

At some point in a fiber optic network there is a glass/copper interface which would produce some kind of EMF.