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Posted by Nick Hull on March 18, 2006, 8:56 am
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> | TMT's question deteriorated into a [somewhat interesting] political
> | discussion, but the question as to what to do techically about IEDs is
> | a very interesting question and very much on topic of this
> | newsgroup. Perhaps, in this sub-thread, we could post our own thoughts
> | as to what could be done to reduce the threat of IEDs.
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> One of the things that the Iraqi people have in abundance now is cell
> phones, all to exercise their new-found freedoms. The perverse part of it
> is that these are the thing that are used to set off the IED's. Connect up
> a bomb to a phone bought from the rack at the local "stop and rob" and use
> it as a trigger. When you call your new toy, it'll have a rather
> distinctive "ring" to all those in the area.
> I'm guessing that many high value vehicles and personnel travel with
> cell phone jammers going, which prevents their use. Personally, I think
> there should be a system that calls every phone there is in the system at
> random intervals, at least once a day, perhaps more depending on certain
> criteria such as newness, type of service, how little you paid for your
> phone, etc. It'll blow up a lot of bad guys trying to make bombs, and
> merely be an annoyance for everyone else, long enough for them to abandon
> that technique and look for something else to use. Gotta be careful, they
> might come up with something worse!
>
The insurgents would quickly adapt to triggering the IED from a code
sent to the cell phone and they would love the superior timing; better
accuracy than waiting for the ringer.
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> | discussion, but the question as to what to do techically about IEDs is
> | a very interesting question and very much on topic of this
> | newsgroup. Perhaps, in this sub-thread, we could post our own thoughts
> | as to what could be done to reduce the threat of IEDs.
>
> One of the things that the Iraqi people have in abundance now is cell
> phones, all to exercise their new-found freedoms. The perverse part of it
> is that these are the thing that are used to set off the IED's. Connect up
> a bomb to a phone bought from the rack at the local "stop and rob" and use
> it as a trigger. When you call your new toy, it'll have a rather
> distinctive "ring" to all those in the area.
> I'm guessing that many high value vehicles and personnel travel with
> cell phone jammers going, which prevents their use. Personally, I think
> there should be a system that calls every phone there is in the system at
> random intervals, at least once a day, perhaps more depending on certain
> criteria such as newness, type of service, how little you paid for your
> phone, etc. It'll blow up a lot of bad guys trying to make bombs, and
> merely be an annoyance for everyone else, long enough for them to abandon
> that technique and look for something else to use. Gotta be careful, they
> might come up with something worse!
>