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the day after the embassy bombings, Tenet brought to a principles meeting intel that terrorist leaders were expected to gather at a camp near Khowst, Afghanistan, to plan future attacks.
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But calls to the terrorist leader's laptop-size satphone - relayed via an Inmarsat satellite 40,000 km over the Indian Ocean - are going unanswered.
His number - 00873 682505331 - was disclosed earlier this year in the New York trial of his associates for bombing the US embassy in Kenya. Callers now hear a message stating he is "not logged on or not in the dialled ocean region".
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Bin Laden may, however, have been unaware that NSA "sigint" satellites, listening from space, could pinpoint his location. The satellites are controlled from ground stations near Denver, Munich, and at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire. But they could only locate him when he was logged on.
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Inmarsat C is recommended for the any of the following applications:
· Remote monitoring
· Tracking
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And for many thousands of vessels, our satellites form the mainstay of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), which instantly connect mariners around the world to the nearest rescue centre.
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The GMDSS consists of several systems, some of which are new, but many of which have been in operation for many years. The system will be able to reliably perform the following functions: alerting (including position determination of the unit in distress), search and rescue coordination, locating (homing),
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American spy satellites, trained on Iraq and Kuwait, were quickly turned north to the Caucasus mountains and Chechnya, according to a former communications specialist with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The satellites pinpointed the Chechen leader's location to within meters of his satellite phone signal, and the coordinates were sent to a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet.
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American spy satellites, trained on Iraq and Kuwait, were quickly turned north to the Caucasus mountains and Chechnya, according to a former communications specialist with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The satellites pinpointed the Chechen leader's location to within meters of his satellite phone signal, and the coordinates were sent to a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet.
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Originally posted by sardion2000
Triangulation of a Cell Phone signal isn't that accurate. In order to reliably take out the target, it would take a missile and there would be lots of "collateral damage".
Originally posted by sardion2000
Are we talking about Pre or Post Bush? How many hours were recorded after 9/11?
I thought the primary reason that Clinton didn't order the strike was due to collateral damage. If it had been Bush after 9/11, and he didn't want to make the strike, then that's pretty damning.
[edit on 31-3-2007 by sardion2000]
Originally posted by sardion2000
If it had been Bush after 9/11, and he didn't want to make the strike, then that's pretty damning.