Posted on 09/05/2001 7:19:53 PM PDT by Askel5
| PA ADMITS TO ‘WORK ACCIDENT’ Even the PA has now admitted: A "work accident" led to the death yesterday of Muhammad Yassin, 24, in Gaza. He was in the midst of preparing a bomb in his parents’ apartment when the explosive went off, killing the would-be terrorist and destroying the entire apartment building.  |
The Work Accident Team |
One car after another went through the checkpoint, just like yesterday and the day before. The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) had been manning these inspection points long enough now that the delay and inconvenience were becoming routine. Inconvenience was now part of everyday life in Jerusalem. Slowly the line moved on.
Since the suicide bombings began in the city the Intifada was having a different kind of impact on the Israelis. Buses were definitely less popular. People were staying away from the malls. Traffic had fallen off in the restaurants.
The uniformed IDF man waved a white van into the checkpoint and ordered the two Arabs out into the sun. A pair of Israeli soldiers led the two men to a spot about fifteen feet from the van to check their identity papers and work permits while the van was gone over.
The Arabs stared incredulously as the first IDF man produced a Geiger counter and began probing the inside of the van. The officer checking their IDs told them that the IDF had been tipped off that Hamas would try to smuggle radioactive materials into Jerusalem to contaminate Jewish holy sites. It was hard for the Arabs to keep from laughing out loud. How could the Jews be so gullible?
The man inside the van was very methodical and would be finished in 45 seconds. He probed every part of the interior of the van. The Geiger counter in his hands was US Army surplus from the late 60's. The guts had been removed and very carefully replaced with a very sophisticated solid state nitrate sniffer. The device was now impossible to detect in its new casing and was far more sensitive than the most well-trained bomb-sniffing dog. The instrument could detect the faint residue of explosives in an empty cardboard box even if it had only held the explosive for fifteen minutes as far back as three weeks ago.
There were no explosives in the van but the nitrate sniffer indicated that explosives had been hauled in it very recently. The soldier left the van and pretended to search the undercarriage. The phony search under the van would give him the opportunity to attach a micro-transmitter to the vehicle. The 'homer' would use GPS signals to continuously relay the van's exact position to an IDF Intelligence outpost.
The Arabs were told that they were free to go.
When the homer indicated the van had come to rest, the Work Accident Team was notified. They studied the reported location and went to work. They would have to watch the building the driver was in at all times. It must be assumed that the explosives are somewhere inside.
The tasks of the team are very nerve wracking. They must watch everyone that comes and goes for up to thirty-six hours. They must complete their mission within a day and a half.
They drive a big Ryder-like truck with a fiberglass body. Tiny cameras concealed on the truck are controlled from inside the rear of the truck where two Mossad agents operate them from the very cramped spaces left them by the 'ANAI' equipment which takes up most of the cargo space. The ANAI package consists of an electrical system designed to generate an extremely powerful pulse of energy in the FM radio spectrum and an antenna to direct it wherever necessary.
The six-foot long YAGI antenna was trained on the house as soon as the truck arrived so that the pulse could be delivered with very little delay at any time within the coming thirty-six hours.
ANAI is the Hebrew word for thunderbolt.
Mossad engineers got the idea for ANAI from a device the US Secret Service started using in the sixties. Whenever the president was to speak they would set up a suitcase-sized radio pulse generator near the podium and zap the hall with a few pulses. If any bombs were present, the RF would arc across the open switches, detonating any devices nearby. This procedure still is followed to this day.
The ANAI pulse generator is many times more powerful than the Secret Service unit.
This same RF-arcing phenomenon is the reason police units always are instructed to not use the radios in their squad cars when responding to emergencies involving explosives. Just the act of keying their microphones could detonate explosives in a nearby building.
The Work Accident Team would watch the house and wait for the right moment to launch the invisible thunderbolt through the fiberglass skin of the truck. They had done this before. They would try to develop a feel for how many people were in the house. In particular, they would hope for Hamas commanders and/or known bomb-making instructors to enter the house. There were many political figures on the fringe that would also make great targets if they happened to show up. </p?
If no one on the official 'target list' materialized and they were approaching the end of the thirty-six hour window of operations, they would consider other elements. If they were running out of time they may try launching the pulse when there were plenty of Palestinians in close proximity. The newspapers would report that the hapless Arab bomber had made a mistake, killing not only himself, but also some of his neighbors. It always looks like an accident.
It was a clean modus operandi and very secret. If a pulse were launched and there was an explosion: great … one less bomb to kill Israelis on the street. (If it was an actual bomb factory, perhaps twenty less bombs for the street.) No one goes to prison. No Mossad agents testifying in court, telling Hamas what means were used to trip them up. No indication of what Hamas must do to keep from getting caught again next week.
If they launch an ANAI pulse and nothing happens, nobody gets hurt. It's like the Mossad were never even there. Knowing there were explosives in the van not long ago, they may stake out another address to which the van travels. If nothing shakes out of that address within thirty-six hours they will deliver a pulse and move on to the next location.
The Israeli newspapers have begun referring to bomber mishaps as 'work accidents.' When it happens to the IRA, the English papers call it 'scoring an own goal.'
I'm CERTAIN we talked to a few hams. Talk about Boom Boxes ... hearing them come over the line after scratchy semi-drivers was enough to shatter the overhead window of the Vista Cruiser.
Far cheaper to buy an old Micor or Mastr on ebay for $25, no? :)
It's possible to defeat this with electronic devices. Careful engineering is required, which I do not know the details of, nor would I relate it here if I did know.
Far cheaper to buy an old Micor or Mastr on ebay for $25, no? :)Far cheaper that way - but who has the gear, let alone the knowledge anymore, to 'tune' those up?
And would Askel5 understand those terms if I were to use them first out of the box?
Much better 'deals' than those on Ebay can be had at Dayton, too ...
Hell of a way to get a hysterectomy.
Disassedher, I'd imagine.
Don't kid yourself.
No mention of the static electricity pulses for unstable compounds or of the microwaves to remotely heat up explosives, I see, but some manner of auto-destruct did seem to be leaked. Ahh, nothing quite like setting up an early 1900's van de graph generator within 50 feet of Nitroglycerine...
Early in the war on terrorism, the Pentagon acquired from Israel special electronic equipment that can detonate roadside bombs from a safe distance.The Pentagon is tight-lipped on what types of technologies it has sent to Iraq to counter the ever-present improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
But a source tells us the Israelis perfected a truck-mounted electronics suite that sends a radio pulse across a designated area to detonate any hidden IEDs. They have used it to explode bombs still attached to Palestinian suicide bombers. The system is not foolproof, however. The remote control device is sometimes on a frequency not covered by the pulse.
I was just slightly ahead of the curve, it seems ... if the subsequent "Work Accident" articles posted on FR are any indication.
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