At 09:36 AM 3/27/03 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 08:41 AM, John Kelsey wrote:
...
However, it seems to me it would be very hard for this news not to leak
out. If, say, a nuke or serious bioterror weapon had been found in a major
city, a lot of agencies would have had kno
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:50 pm, Neil Johnson wrote:
> When I went to work for the University I graduated from. I discovered all
> sorts of interesting things and even more when my sister enrolled.
>
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Duh ! I forgot the point was that, if things are properly handled, it's not
that hard to
At 02:06 AM 3/28/03 -0800, Sarad AV wrote:
hi,
That cannot possibly even happen-by mistake.Al-jazeera
is qatar based.They might hit a chinese embassy but
not AL-Jazeera.
I believe we hit the Al Jazeera office in Afghanistan pretty early in our
bombing campaign there. (I read an archived BBC stor
John Kelsey wrote:
> I wasn't thinking of Al Qaida. There are a *lot* of people who might like
> to have a last-ditch deterrent against a US invasion or other action.
I can think of a few workable deterrents against US invasion:
- ICBMS
- an army with a reputation of fighting nastily when att
hi,
That cannot possibly even happen-by mistake.Al-jazeera
is qatar based.They might hit a chinese embassy but
not AL-Jazeera.
1500 turkish troops moved into north iraq-US cannot
immediately do any thing about it since flying over
Turkish air space is important for them.
Sarath.
(Before Al Jaze
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 08:41 AM, John Kelsey wrote:
At 08:28 AM 3/26/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 06:12 PM 3/25/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
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>Maybe the FBI caught them and disarmed the
>bombs before they went off.
And they didn't claim any credit? This doesn't jibe with t
At 08:28 AM 3/26/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 06:12 PM 3/25/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
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>Maybe the FBI caught them and disarmed the
>bombs before they went off.
And they didn't claim any credit? This doesn't jibe with the puffery
one observes.
Well, there's puffery, and then there'
At 09:09 PM 3/26/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
>In a news conference on Tuesday, some general claimed they had located
and
>"taken out" six sites where GPS jammers were being used.
>
>He claimed one site had been taken out with a GPS guided weapon.
>
>"Kind of Ironic" I beleive he said.
Well, the
Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> >The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank
>
> I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym
> and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-)
> (Besides, I thought assassinations were usu
hi,
They are not working very well or US since the iraqi's
are using gps jammers and US are already in a row with
russians claiming that they sold it to iraq.
Regards Sarath.
--- Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Ken Brown
> wrote:
>
> > Declan McCul
At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank
I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym
and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-)
(Besides, I thought assassinations were usually an SAS
(Special Air Service, not
Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>>The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank
>
>I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym and not Britain's
>Royal Air Force? :-)
Red Army Faction, a German terr
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 09:22 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche
Bank
I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym
and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-)
(Besides, I thoug
Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I seem to recall that with sufficient knowledge and commonly available
>detonators shaped explosive charges can be configured to hurl heavy
>explosive payloads, much like a mortar, with fair accuracy, great distance
>or very high velocity. I can't seem to
At 04:37 AM 3/25/03 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
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If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far?
Suppose you only have one, it was really hard to get, and you're not sure
how much of your US network has been turned, or at least placed under heavy
surveilance? Maybe you wait unt
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
Declan McCullagh wrote:
Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery
system
for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour
at
hi,
for every bomb that explodes in U.S,civil liberties
will keep comming down.This is not the case in other
countries were more bombs are hurled or exploded
daily.Though they are less concerned about their
citizens,they are concerned of their civil
liberties(atleast to some extent).
Regards Sara
At 04:37 AM 03/25/2003 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far?
Because they've been able to achieve "Shock and Awe" without them
and keep most of the rabble in line by threatening to blow up
other nuclear-armed terrorists in mutually assured destru
Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
> >can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system
> >for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour at
> >hundreds of small to medium sized airports around
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lucky Green wrote:
> If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far?
I don't think they have nukes. Not yet. But now they're seeing plenty of
reasons to get them. We're lucky they're poor, low-tech people in general.
--
On 24 Mar 2003 at 22:05, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> I fear that's right. We have substantially increased our
> number of enemies capable of causing us serious damage (and
> have the requiste means, motive, and opportunity)
Observe the marked decline in terrorist acts. Recollect that
9/11 wa
At 12:03 AM 3/25/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Someone else pointed out that this has been discussed in a novel
(wasn't aware). I hardly mean to say my prediction is unique. It's
just one response to the question that the counterterrorism folks must
ask themselves all the time: How to deliver
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:28:41PM -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
> The simplest autopilots just keep the wings level. Almost equally common
> are ones that can follow a radio location signal (VHF Onmi-Range (VOR)
> usually). Altitude hold is less common, as are autopilots that can follow
> an Instrum
Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
> can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system
> for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour at
> hundreds of small to medium size
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Bill O'Hanlon wrote:
Both of these ideas get used in Martin Caidin's book "Deathmate"...
(If you're old enough, you might remember the "Six Million Dollar Man"
TV series. Caidin was the author of the book that was used for that
series.)
It's a bit old, but
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:05:24PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> I'm still
> predicting radio-controlled helicopters (or RC planes, which could carry
> a far greater load).
>
> Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
> can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a fly
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 07:28 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 7:05 PM -0800 3/24/03, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system
for something quite noxious. These planes can b
Eugen wrote:
> This is dire lunacy. Currently US is perceived as an agressor
> by the majority of the world, including the so-called ally
> U.K. which has lent more than just its name. You will see an
> unprecedented surge in terrorism in the heart of homeland
> soon after this campaign is over
At 7:05 PM -0800 3/24/03, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
>can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system
>for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour at
>hundreds of small to medium sized
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:41:09PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> This is dire lunacy. Currently US is perceived as an agressor by the
> majority of the world, including the so-called ally U.K. which has lent
> more than just its name. You will see an unprecedented surge in terrorism
> in the heart of
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, James A. Donald wrote:
> If the US trys to avoid civilian casualties, this is not out of
> fear and weakness. Indeed, when we observe the recent past, it
> seems that it is failure to commit sufficient murder that
> provokes these attacks. The US does not suffer bad
Th
James Donald wrote...
"perhaps
the most effectual thing the US could do to prevent future
random terror attacks is to round up one hundred million.
innocents and slaughter the lot. Everyone loved the commies
for doing that, so if the US wants to be loved, perhaps it
needs to do the same."
What t
--
Harmon Seaver:
> > > Not inside the cities they can't, not without tons of
> > > collateral damage, which will crucify Dubbya and Blair.
James A. Donald:
> > No one (except the US military which hopes to rule an
> > intact Iraq) least of all the protestors, care how many
> > Iraqis get kill
Hey, this war is looking better all the time. We got our first fragging
already, and the US troops are finding themselves no real match for the
Iraqis. I just heard that there's at least 1 million well armed Ba'ath party
irregulars, plus unknown numbers of "armed Iraqi tribes", besides the 400,0
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