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To: FaultLine who started this subject2/23/2003 11:59:32 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>From Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax:

A quick run thru what is going on in Baghdad before uncles and aunts flood the house.

The juiciest bit of news actually happened about a week ago but I was told about it today. A couple of days ago it was rumored that all top officials had their phone numbers changed, well who cares it’s not like I call Saddam every night to chat, but today a friend explained why.

Around six days ago the phone lines of the Iraqi air defense units were “attacked”.

When you picked up the phone in some of the command units you didn’t get a dial tone but a male voice speaking in broken Arabic. What it said is close to what the (American warning to Iraqi generals) infamous email said, don’t use chemical or biological weapons, don’t offer resistance, and don’t obey commands to attack civilian areas and so on.

This went on for a couple of hours. Now everyone has new numbers. I have no idea how that is at all possible. I do know that for some rural areas we use microwave signals for phone connections but they can’t be so stupid as to use it for military purposes.

Way to go uncle Sam. This is going to make one hell of a James Bond movie.

Now this is the kind of electronic warfare carried by Uncle Sam that you don't hear about in the news. I just tried Salam's blog Where Is Raed but it seems that it is down currently. Hope Saddam didn't shut him down.

1 posted on 02/23/2003 11:56 PM EST by ganeshpuri89<<
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