Cluster Intel Bomb

Small video and audio transmitters stuffed into what looks like mundane Mideast street trash, i. e. food wrappers, pieces of rubber painted to look like asphalt and rickrack would be packed cluster bomb style to eavesdrop on Hezbollah infested neighborhoods.

This would be particularly vexing to rocket launchers because they would never know if the Israelis knew there were children in the area. Moreover, denouncing camlet bombs would have very little PR value. ("Those Zionists pigs are trying to protect civilians!")

The "trash" would be just nerfy enough to provide for a low enough terminal velocity and a soft enough impact to protect most of the transmitters.

The real work on this project would be to determine the top 200 types of street trash and then make sure all 200 types have a more or less pro rata representation.

I'm a great supporter of the 4th Amendment. Under no circumstances should listening devices be deployed in, say, the current U. S. "war on terror" when terrorists attack at most only once every few years. But everything is relative. Saving civilian lives in time of an ongoing war, i. e. when rockets are being launched more than several times a day, trumps the 4th.

Bret Cahill

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Bret Cahill
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Nice idea but why? The kid Israel kills today is the terrorist they don't have to worry about tomorrow.

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Daniel T.

This stuff effects all of us, it's about time we got it all settled.

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cbarn24050

Hi, Bret. Radio transmitters were dropped on the Ho Chi Minh trail during Vietnam in the '60s to help interdict munitions and troop movement by picking up their sound -- it's a useful idea, but it isn't all that new.

Droppings in the jungle are a little different than these devices in an urban area, though. Apart from cost considerations, the requirement for humans to actually watch and decode the intelligence, and also RF bandwidth considerations, the subterfuge would inevitably be discovered quickly in urban areas, and a legion of children with brooms would make short work of your investment.

Not only that, but you have to ask yourself how much useful intelligence you would get, and whether the cost would be worth the benefit.

By the way, political and current events postings generally don't go to s.e.b.

Cheers Chris

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Chris

The trash bin is already there and it is the TV. The little things running across its screen are Western dollars/euros disguised as something else. Little green propaganda bills of laden!

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Immortalist

Technology has improved since the 1960s, however.

It's probably being done in some fashion right now.

That could be done anywhere, Bangalore, for example.

The devices could be deployed where buildings were being demolished with the effect of less destruction overall. Batteries only last a few days at most anyway.

They could even put on an act pretending they didn't see the cam.

"We need to have this rocket launcher moved over to the corner of A and B St. by 4:23 am. There will be a big white tarp with a bulls eye over the top of the launcher."

Costs of such equipment is much lower than in the '60s.

This post was the only one with anything to say tech wise.

Bret Cahill

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Bret Cahill

In message , Daniel T. writes

The kid Israel kills today might also the outstanding statesman that brings both sides together tomorrow but I guess we'll never know.

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Clint Sharp
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Clint Sharp

nope - he doesn't have a chance... brain washed from birth my old chum.

I saw a documentary the other day "Mohammed & Juda" about two kids, one Palestinian, the other Israeli, both about 17...

The israeli kid was a typical teenager, loutish, trouble at school, disrespectful of his mother, desperate for recognition by his peers etc. The Plaestinian kid was good at school, respected his parents, arrested and beaten up for participating in a demonstration. Told by his father that his arrest should not stop him from demonstrating, called a walking martyr by his peers, held up by the school as a role model for all... even the school plays were all about kicking out the invader and martyrdom and stuff like that all the time. The final inculcation was a poster on the walls of the school (a proper one, like "drink more milk" or whatever) that said "Killing a Jew brings you closer to god"...

sorry, there will be no peace - the kids are being got-at before they can think for themselves - very sad

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feebo

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