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2006-06-11 -Lurid Crime Tales-
"Smart dust" may have helped get Zarqawi
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Posted by Mike 2006-06-11 13:52|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 If smart dust was used, it would mean a US informant got close enough to the Z-Man to sprinkle his clothes. Actually, I thought smart dust would be radioactive dust sprinkled on Soviet cars and clothing to track soviet agents' movements. That DOES exist and was used by the FBI during the last years of the Cold War.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al  2006-06-11 14:32||   2006-06-11 14:32|| Front Page Top

#2 If the Z-Man had just used more Lemon Pledge and a good vacuum cleaner, all this unpleasantry could have been avoided?
Posted by Darrell 2006-06-11 14:52||   2006-06-11 14:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe someone else wore it in to the not-so-safe house. I was thinking maybe the "skimpy slip in a leopard skin pattern".
Posted by GK 2006-06-11 15:10||   2006-06-11 15:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Was the leopard-pattern outfit sized for a medium or large goat?
Posted by Brett 2006-06-11 16:19||   2006-06-11 16:19|| Front Page Top

#5 We're of the same thought GK. Isolated houses in the country...attended by 'spiritual advisors'...occupied by unknown women of questionable origin.
Posted by Skidmark 2006-06-11 16:20||   2006-06-11 16:20|| Front Page Top

#6 knowing an "Islamic Religious Leader™" was there, I'm surprised no young boyz were found
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-06-11 16:30||   2006-06-11 16:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Wow! Fairy dust!
Posted by Slopinski 2006-06-11 17:16||   2006-06-11 17:16|| Front Page Top

#8 occupied by unknown women of questionable origin.

At least one of the women in the house was a wife of Zarqawi who had been collecting info on the Coalition and Iraqi forces ... not clear how she got it.
Posted by lotp 2006-06-11 17:26||   2006-06-11 17:26|| Front Page Top

#9 It's deployed by Apache trackers.
Posted by 6 2006-06-11 17:39||   2006-06-11 17:39|| Front Page Top

#10 wife of Zarqawi who had been collecting info on the Coalition and Iraqi forces ... not clear how she got it.

A classic order of battle analytical failure and death by PPT.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-11 17:45||   2006-06-11 17:45|| Front Page Top

#11 #7: Wow! Fairy dust!
Damn, beat me to it, I have "Tinkerbell" firmly in mind sprinkling Osama with a bit of tracking dust and zipping away as the bombs zero in.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-06-11 17:58||   2006-06-11 17:58|| Front Page Top

#12 For some reason, Cheech & Chong came to mind.
Posted by flyover 2006-06-11 18:02||   2006-06-11 18:02|| Front Page Top

#13 ...Even if this isn't true, the AlQueers have GOT to be soiling themselves right now reading this. They have relied on the eternal dust itself to hide them - and now it may be betraying them. Clarke's Law strikes again.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-06-11 19:03||   2006-06-11 19:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Y'all gettin' the same Google ad on the right sidebar as me?

Snork!
Posted by Parabellum 2006-06-11 19:27||   2006-06-11 19:27|| Front Page Top

#15 One form of Smart Dust at this dated link

The goal of the Smart Dust project is to build a self-contained, millimeter-scale sensing and communication platform for a massively distributed sensor network. This device will be around the size of a grain of sand and will contain sensors, computational ability, bi-directional wireless communications, and a power supply, while being inexpensive enough to deploy by the hundreds. The science and engineering goal of the project is to build a complete, complex system in a tiny volume using state-of-the art technologies (as opposed to futuristic technologies), which will require evolutionary and revolutionary advances in integration, miniaturization, and energy management. We forsee many applications for this technology:


Weather/seismological monitoring on Mars


Internal spacecraft monitoring


Land/space comm. networks


Chemical/biological sensors


Weapons stockpile monitoring


Defense-related sensor networks


Inventory Control


Product quality monitoring


Smart office spaces


Sports - sailing, balls

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-11 20:21||   2006-06-11 20:21|| Front Page Top

#16 How appropriate, a 2001 penney. The application list obviously predates asshat-tracking. Obviously the transmission range is very limited.
Posted by flyover 2006-06-11 20:28||   2006-06-11 20:28|| Front Page Top

#17 D *** it, so thats where my Skittles disappeared to.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-11 23:02||   2006-06-11 23:02|| Front Page Top

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