> Sunder[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29750.html > > Airstrike! The Pentagon simplifies media relations > By John Lettice > Posted: 13/03/2003 at 17:10 GMT > > Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon proposes to take > radical new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised' journalists will be > shot at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1 last sunday veteran > war reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a senior Pentagon > official that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite phones, that are > detected by US aircraft are likely to be fired on. > ....ok. A loitering US plane equipped with HARMs (High explosive Anti Radiation Missiles) detects a satellite uplink from within or just our side of the front line (or even out front). It lacks the correct IFF codes.
Is it: 1. An journalist doing what he was specifically told not to do? 2. An Iraqi or Al-Queda forward fire director, calling in coordinates for a VX loaded missile attack on your side. If you wait, and it's a bad guy, the signal will be lost, and you can't use your missiles. The attack will take place, and your friends will die. Make a decision. Now. Peter Trei
