"To the hell that is Iraq?" New study on deaths.

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Postby OP ED » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:51 pm

freemason9 wrote:Pardon me for asking, but how is it that a drone can identify persons "even inside buildings?" I'm not getting this at all.

On a side note, I think it may be time to seriously slash defense spending. Those SOB's are likely to use it in America one day.


translation for paranoids: they are already using them in America.

(and I think they read heat signatures to "see" people through walls. actually identifying those people this way is of course, impossible)
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Postby JackRiddler » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:40 pm

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Here's what I now expect it looks like: rapid integrated info processing from multiple sources, guiding the drones in real time. They track "enemy" motions via thermal and visual means from the ground, from the drones, and from high altitude platforms, probably including satellites. The insurgents are pressed by the armored infantry and flee into their hideouts and holes, where the surveillance follows them and the drones hit them.

Does it work as well as it does in Enemy of the State, starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman? Fuck do I know?

What does this serve to disguise and distract from?

1) Lots of other people get killed. Just call them militants and add them to the (secret) bodycount to victory.

2) The vast majority of Sunni and Baathist insurgents were turned by the means of having the US hire them; no doubt many of them were exposed to Shia militias.

3) "Al Qaeda in Iraq" is almost certainly controlled by US and Saudi intelligence, conducting false flag attacks, and infiltrating the remaining insurgents as far as that's possible.

4) US military has no business killing anyone in the country it illegally invaded.
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Postby robert d reed » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:48 am

Biometrics.

Iraq as pilot project, beginning with Fallujah.
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Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:58 am

JackRiddler wrote:.

Here's what I now expect it looks like: rapid integrated info processing from multiple sources, guiding the drones in real time. They track "enemy" motions via thermal and visual means from the ground, from the drones, and from high altitude platforms, probably including satellites. The insurgents are pressed by the armored infantry and flee into their hideouts and holes, where the surveillance follows them and the drones hit them.
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No coincidence, you just described CIA-Disney's latest animation film called 'Wall*E,'
the marriage of ground-based drones with satellites through a 'mastership' database.

The kidz always first get an entertainment version of new war technology to get them used to it without screaming into the streets like the '60s.

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Re: bingo

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:04 am

robert d reed wrote:Biometrics.

Iraq as pilot project, beginning with Fallujah.


Yup.

As refugees were let back into Fallujah (after the chemical weapons traces were cleaned up and buried along with the half-eaten-by-dogs/half-melted-by-white-phosphorus bodies of civilians), they were screened and had fingerprints and retina scans taken.

A combination of Disney World and space-age Warsaw Ghetto.
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Postby Nordic » Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:41 am

This is 100% total b.s.

You guys are falling for the propaganda.

There was no "winning the war in Iraq".

If you accept this notion that there's some mysterious super-powered super-spy techno-geeky thing then you're accepting the notion that "we won the war in Iraq".

It's a classic magician technique -- the left hand is doing one thing while you're looking at the right hand.

In this case you're being mentally pick-pocketed.

This is actually very good propaganda.

If it's working on you guys, it's pretty good!
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Postby JackRiddler » Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:57 am

Nordic wrote:This is 100% total b.s.

You guys are falling for the propaganda.

There was no "winning the war in Iraq".

If you accept this notion that there's some mysterious super-powered super-spy techno-geeky thing then you're accepting the notion that "we won the war in Iraq".

It's a classic magician technique -- the left hand is doing one thing while you're looking at the right hand.

In this case you're being mentally pick-pocketed.

This is actually very good propaganda.

If it's working on you guys, it's pretty good!


Untrue. This is a false reading of this thread. In fact, you're implying the opposite of what I argued in the "11 steps" post above. Did you really read the discussion, or are you responding to the title only?

I certainly do not accept the notion that the (US military) "won the war in Iraq," or that Woodward's mysterious techno-geeky thing (which has in the meantime been revealed as a combo of drone planes plus surveillance) made the difference.

It's also clear that the "war in Iraq" (the US invasion and resulting genocide) is likely one day to be "lost" (result in the end of US presence there). There is a current decline in killings in Iraq, attributable mainly to the buying off of the Sunnis and the Iranian backing of Maliki and pressure on Moqtada. That situation is extremely unstable, especially with the Iraqi government due to take over the salaries of the "awakened" Sunnis in October and Maliki's incipient break with the US (demands for a timeline, no bid contracts to Chevron Exxon et al. have been put under review, China got a contract, etc.).

So it's clear that Woodward's been sent to exploit this likely temporary period of calm with a paean to US military prowess, magnifying all the nonsense about the "victory" of the "surge." This is effectively an election assist to McCain and an attempted boost to the Bush "legacy."

On the other hand, I'm sure Woodward is referring to something that really was implemented, and I'm sure it killed a great many people, or is being used as the cover for killing a great many people. Either way, another vast crime against humanity.
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Postby Nordic » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:24 pm

On the other hand, I'm sure Woodward is referring to something that really was implemented, and I'm sure it killed a great many people, or is being used as the cover for killing a great many people. Either way, another vast crime against humanity.


See that's where we disagree.

This is not only a sleight of hand to send the message that the Iraq war is "won" due to some mysterious and amazing American technological ingenuity ...

It is also a bluff. Telling anyone who might want not want to toe the American line in the world that we have a mysterious weapon that will smite them from the planet. Something they are powerless to stop. Something that they'll never see coming, destroy them while they're taking their morning shit or whatever.

Fear fear fear.

It's a bluff.

It's a smart bluff, because everybody knows America DOES have some amazing and scary new technology. But it's still just a bluff.

"Do not dare go against us! We can destroy you anywhere! There is no escape! We have already won in Iraq because of this!"

Yeah, right ....
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Re: bingo

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:28 pm

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
robert d reed wrote:Biometrics.

Iraq as pilot project, beginning with Fallujah.


Yup.

As refugees were let back into Fallujah (after the chemical weapons traces were cleaned up and buried along with the half-eaten-by-dogs/half-melted-by-white-phosphorus bodies of civilians), they were screened and had fingerprints and retina scans taken.

A combination of Disney World and space-age Warsaw Ghetto.
Made in the USA.


Hey Hugh or someone: link would be nice. Sounds like it's part of it. Perhaps they could then use this to "screen" civilians from remote platforms, so that anyone not setting off the right signal is considered free game for the shooting.

Anyway, this was an interesting thread, worth reviewing I believe for anyone who has not yet.

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Postby Nordic » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:49 pm

I agree, Jack, I read this the first time and I don't remember that part of it. (I barely remember my own posts in this thread!!)

But yeah, I would LOVE to find out more about this.

I actually remember something along these lines, when it happened, being reported, back when they were cordoning off entire cities and not letting anyone in or out.

What a laboratory, huh?
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Postby elfismiles » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:02 pm

Anderson Cooper reported on THE DAILY SHOW the use of biometrics in Fallujah and the issuance of biometric enabled ID cards there.

Dhar Jhamal has also reported on this.

I'm going to go find my links and infodump here.
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Postby jingofever » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:08 pm

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U.S. Marines take the retinal scans and fingerprints of Iraqi residents of Fallujah for their required biometric cards.

From here.

News articles here.
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Postby elfismiles » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:09 pm

I believe I posted several of these already but ...

New 'Manhattan project': Journalist talks about new secret military operation
http://www.newsvine.com/_video/2008/09/ ... -operation
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 1#26610461

Secret killing program is key in Iraq, Woodward says
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/ ... index.html

SAS kills hundreds of terrorists in 'secret war' against al-Qaeda in Iraq
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -Iraq.html

U.S. soldiers say they executed Iraqis
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/200 ... LDIERS.php

Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death
By Robert Parry / December 13, 2007
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2007/121307.html

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Dahr Jamail's Weblog
September 15, 2005
Meanwhile, in Iraq...

"The Fallujah model is being applied yet again, albeit on a smaller scale. I haven’t received any reports yet of biometrics being used (retina scans, finger printing, bar coding of human beings) like in Fallujah, but there are other striking similarities to the tactics used in November."
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archiv ... 000276.php

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Slashdot | Advanced Surveillance Tech for Unmanned Drones Credited ...
Advanced Surveillance Tech for Unmanned Drones Credited In Iraq -- article related to ... I too can see through walls, but I don't like to talk about it. ...
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/13/125250.shtml

Israeli army using wrist video screens to monitor drone planes ...
Blowing up buildings and crashing through walls and such. ... advances will happen anyway), but I'd rather lose some hi-tech than see people killed and ...
http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/04/isra ... ne-planes/

Technology
Modern drones employ advanced sensors enabling them to see through walls, ... A common saucer drone manufactured in Canton, typical of the mid-tech end of ...
http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/Game/Dragon ... ology.html

First Image from Revolutionary T-ray Camera; Sees through Fog ...
The technology is poised to revolutionize imaging in astronomy, ... Detecting T-rays allows a camera to effectively see through smoke, walls and even ...
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology ... 20613.html

Defense Review - See-Through-Wall Radar and Vehicle-Disabling ...
See-Through-Wall Radar and Vehicle-Disabling Microwave Tech for Mil/LE Apps Posted on Monday, July 04 @ 05:25:15 PDT by davidc ...
http://www.defensereview.com/modules.ph ... le&sid=754 -

[PDF] Through-the-Wall Surveillance Technologies
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
But what if you could “see” through. the walls? ... wall surveillance (TWS) technologies a. top priority. The technology projects ...
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/07_01.pdf

Digg - SkySeer Drones: The Future Of Policing?
It doesn't even attempt to see through walls or curtains (although ... going to roll this technology out in more and more cities until we can't escape it. ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/SkySeer_Drone ... f_Policing

Federal Observer Articles - Federal Observer
They also have see-through capability -- with a thermal imaging sensor camera, which can actually see inside of buildings and see through walls. ...
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=1620

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Iraq Diary: Fallujah's Biometric Gates (Updated) | Danger Room ...
The Marines have walled off Fallujah, and closed the city’s roads to traffic. The only way in is to have a badge. And the only way to get a badge.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/f ... -pics.html

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Iraq's Biometric Database Could Become "Hit List": Army | Danger ...
VELLIQUETTE: Well, if he collected biometric information from that person in Fallujah, then it's in the system at the Biometrics Fusion Center in West ...
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/a ... hirds.html

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Marine Corps deploys Fallujah biometric ID scheme • The Register
Dec 9, 2004 ... US forces in Iraq are attempting to tame Fallujah with biometric ID, according to an NBC news report broadcast last week. ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/09 ... metric_id/

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Covering the Middle East: Securitizing the Global Norm of Identity ...
ii John Lettice, 'Marine Corps deploys Fallujah biometric ID scheme' The Register http://www.theregister.com/2004/12/09/f ... print.html ...
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_ ... 000277.php

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Marines Using Biometric Scanning to Cordon Fallujah - Boing Boing ...
Aug 31, 2007 ... After years of bombs and machine gun fire, the city of Fallujah has suddenly gone quiet. Iraq Diary: Fallujah's Biometric Gates< [Danger ...
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/08/3 ... iomet.html

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The Raw Feed: Marines Lock Down Fallujah With Biometrics
Marines Lock Down Fallujah With Biometrics. U.S. Marines took Fallujah, Iraq, away from insurgents and terrorists in 2004 the old fashioned way: with bloody ...
http://www.therawfeed.com/2007/08/marin ... -with.html

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The Business of Emotions: Biometrics, Orwell and Fallujah
Biometrics, Orwell and Fallujah. The future is nearer than you may like to think . Recall the movie ‘Minority Report’. Its plot centers around a police unit ...
http://businessofemotions.typepad.com/d ... _orwe.html

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Gadget & Tech News » Marines Lock Down Fallujah With Biometrics
U.S. Marines are using biometrics to maintain peace and order in the former terrorist stronghold town of Fallujah, Iraq. The only way to enter the city is ...
http://www.gadgetcom.com/marines-lock-d ... iometrics/

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Decline and Fall: Blast Walls and Biometrics
Michael Totten has an interesting embed report from Fallujah that doesn't detail ... The ID's are produced by U.S. forces and are connected to a biometric ...
http://www.declineandfall.net/2007/12/b ... trics.html

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Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) ID system sniffs out hidden ...
Jul 30, 2007 ... Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) ID system sniffs out hidden threats in Iraq. FALLUJAH, Iraq - From roadside bombs to small arms fire to ...
http://www.findbiometrics.com/article/411


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Nowhere To HideKiller drones that can see through walls.
By William Saletan
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008, at 11:49 AM ET
UAV heads up display. Click image to expand.Display from an unmanned aerial vehicle

For the last couple of days, in the Human Nature blog, I've been looking into a breakthrough cryptically reported in Iraq and Afghanistan: the ability of U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles to identify and track human targets "even when they are inside buildings." Several recently reported technologies might account for it, but Slate reader fozzy suggests looking for the answer in a military research field called STTW, usually translated as "sense-through-the-wall." Has this ability been extended to a distance that allows it to be used by aerial drones?

Fozzy cites a March 2008 Army technical report on the latest progress in STTW radar methods. (Warning: Most of the documents I'm linking to here are PDFs, and some take a long time to open.) With a few more clicks, I pulled up an April 2008 report from the same research team. Both reports focus on "detecting and identifying humans enclosed in building structures." "Through-the-wall sensing is currently a topic of great interest to defense agencies both in the U.S. and abroad," says the April report. "The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been active in all these fields of investigation, approaching these issues both through hardware design and radar measurements and through computer simulation of various STTW scenarios."

STTW has been around for a while. A 2006 report from the National Defense University mentions a DARPA system that can "detect the presence of personnel within rooms (stated to be successful through 12 inches of concrete)," as well as a commercially developed system with a "30-foot standoff capability." The next step, to protect U.S. personnel, is to put the technology on "unattended" mobile devices. Since the initial context is urban warfare, the pioneering client is the Army, and the introductory platform is unmanned ground vehicles. But the goal is to increase "standoff distance" and spread the technology to other platforms.
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Meanwhile, up in the air, drone designers have been struggling with a similar problem: seeing through "darkness, bad weather, and tree canopies." The crucial contribution drones have made in Iraq—providing instant, on-demand customized video to ground forces—doesn't work where the drones' cameras can't see. So American engineers are developing radar that penetrates outdoor obstacles.

What seems to be happening is that these two projects—STTW and UAVs—are converging. In other words, unmanned vehicles that can see through walls. In some planning documents, the merger is explicit. A 2006 "Operational Needs Statement" from the military's Joint Urban Operations Office calls for a "STTW sensor mountable on both manned and unmanned vehicles," including "UAV platforms." A Navy bulletin calls for the same thing.

Conceptually, the merger serves every tactical objective. It increases standoff distance and mobility. It makes aerial drones useful in bad weather and urban settings. It also integrates them into a more ambitious plan: to see the enemy through every wall, not just one. A 2005 DARPA report, for example, proposes to "image through multiple walls and even penetrate whole buildings using distributed sensors on or around buildings," with UAVs assisting ground forces. A 2007 Army Research Lab study explores the ability of ground sensors, working with UAVs, to capture "images from different angles," thereby providing "intelligence on the configuration, content, and human presence inside enclosed areas (buildings)."

Three years ago, according to a defense contractor, the goal was to extend STTW capability to "distances in excess of 100 m," which would start to bring UAVs into the game. Boeing was in discussions to put STTW radar into a UAV. The Army was seeking "a suitable lightweight and compact imaging sensor to be hosted by the Camcopter-small UAV, capable of lifting 65 lbs of payload." The requirement for true aerial mobility was to make the system "lightweight (less than 30 lbs) and portable (less than 4 cubic feet)."

That sounds a lot like the mystery devices now being placed aboard drones in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the Los Angeles Times describes them, "The devices are roughly the size of an automobile battery, but are heavy enough that outfitted Predators in some cases carry only one Hellfire missile instead of two." The effect of these devices, according to a former U.S. military official interviewed by the Times, is that insurgents, even indoors, "are living with a red dot on their head."

Cool, huh? Except that if their walls are now transparent, so are yours. As fozzy astutely asks: "What happens when the government 'brings this technology home'?" And do you think our government is the only one merging STTW with UAVs? Heck, even the Canadians are well into it. "We will put the UWB radar on mobile platforms such as robots or unmanned airborne vehicle," says a 2002 report from Defence R&D Canada. "We are confident that a through-the-roof surveillance capability could be implemented using UWB radars installed on helicopters or small UAV."

Congratulations. The good news is, we might win in Iraq and Afghanistan after all. The bad news is, now we all have red dots on our heads.

http://www.slate.com/id/2200292/



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We Know Bob Woodward's Iraq Technology Secret
Posted by David A. Fulghum at 9/12/2008 10:07 AM CDT

The “collaborative warfare” that allowed the military and intelligence agencies to “locate, target and kill key individuals in groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgency and renegade Shia militias,” isn’t a secret and it certainly isn’t new.

Despite claims by the Washington Post that these techniques “have not been reported publicly,” many - if not more than Woodward realizes - been written about in technology stories by publications like Aviation Week & Space Technology dating back to 1991’s Operation Desert Storm and even before as they were designed, tested, blended and fielded.

Some of these innovative programs covered in AW&ST include:

1. L-3 Communications Network Centric Collaborative Targeting (NCCT) system that instantaneously links the intelligence take from several aircraft, ships or UAVs at once to locate, identify and target electronic emissions, including communications, and associate them with air, ground and sea radar targets. The system has been widely tested during exercises in the U.S. and has been deployed in Iraq for at least two years.

2. Coordination of information through Non-Traditional Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (NTISR) means. NTISR uses the sensor data from fighters and strike aircraft and insures it is immediately made available to soldiers on the ground who are making house to house searches and raids for insurgents. The U.S. Air Force has been working on the technique for at least a decade.

3. Real-time intelligence gathering and targeting such as through Northrop Grumman’s E-8 Joint Stars has always been a key factor. A program called Eagle Focus has in the last two years developed specialized software programs that brought together data to correlate with “change detection” information. As the JSTARS flew past areas day after day, it would record what had appeared - and what has disappeared - from areas of interest.

4. And another key piece of technology for all of this data linking was the IDM communications module. It was used to link the RC-135 Rivet Joint signals and communications intelligence gathering aircraft with the JSTARs so signals could be associated with objects such as locating the SUV with the Al Qaeda leadership inside. IDM was also extended to AWACS and fighter aircraft that could act on the real-time information.

5. New Boeing F/A-18Fs with dual-helmet-mounted sights used in the forward air control and close air support mission. The weapon systems officer need only look at a target to slew the infrared sensor onto it. It promptly geo-locates the targets based on the aircraft position and laser ranging. Using Rover data links, the air controller on the ground can confirm the target and coordinates are transmitted machine-to-machine of a bomb-carrying Super Hornet and into its Joint Direct Attack Munitions for immediate precision attack.

6. And finally, a stunning set of technologies was developed in the “Suter” series of programs. This intertwined the EC-130 Compass Call electronic attack aircraft with the Rivet Joint. As the Compass Call fired data-beams filled with specialized algorithms into enemy communications antennas (often associated with enemy command and control), the Rivet Joints sensors could tell the effect it was having on the enemy networks. That expanded the long-time skill of intel intercept to include network attack and network exploitation. Moreover, the sensors are so sensitive that they can pick up the low-power emissions of handheld cell phones.


The list of innovations since Desert Storm goes on and on, but with the elimination of military specialists from many news staff, the ability to follow the technology has opened some gaps in understanding and awareness.

But we agree with Woodward giving credit to “operations incorporating some of the most highly classified techniques and information in the U.S. government” as more important than the 2007 troop surge in curbing violence in Iraq.


Special operations leader Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal gave the world a huge clue when he is quoted as say it was “collaborative warfare,” which used “every tool available simultaneously, from signals intercepts to human intelligence and other methods that allowed lightning-quick and sometimes concurrent operations.”

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/de ... 3596dbfa9e


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Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/a ... d_090708w/

Nguyet Anh Duong


Anderson Cooper / February 2, 2005
Anderson Cooper gives Jon Stewart an American comic book aimed at Baghdad kids.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index ... son-Cooper

April 22, 2004: Safety Dance - Biometrics
Safety Dance - Biometrics 04/22/2004
Episode 8131
you forget to pick up your duty free bag, your Japanese Passport Pet weeps.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index ... Biometrics


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe ... cs+in+iraq

Biometrics on the front lineTroops in Iraq asked for biometric ID devices and got them ... The use of biometrics in Iraq marks the first time such products have been used in war or ...
http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26930-1.html

Iraq's Biometric Database Could Become "Hit List": Army | Danger ...Aug 16, 2007 ... The US is building on Saddam's databases to assemble biometric files and national ID cards for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/a ... hirds.html

Biometric Scans Find U.S. Crooks in Iraq, Afghanistan | Danger ...Jul 7, 2008 ... Since 9/11, the US government has fingerprinted, iris-scanned, and face-captured hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, ...
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/07/b ... scans.html

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Biometrics and security in Iraq | Tech news blog - CNET NewsThe US military and Iraqi government have logged thousands of fingerprints and iris scans, but the systems are a long way from being fully up-to-date.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9761654-7.html

Ares HomepageSep 12, 2008 ... In August of last year, Lieutenant Colonel John Velliquette, the biometrics manager in Iraq for the Coalition Police Assistance Training ...
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/de ... 27ec4a53... -

Ares HomepageBiometric scan being conducted in Iraq. Photo: U.S. Army. After years of keeping scattered—and ... Recent Entries. Biometrics in Iraq in Uncertain Position ...
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/de ... 27ec4a53...

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DefenseLink News Article: DoD Readies Biometric ID System for U.S. ...DoD Readies Biometric ID System for U.S. Bases in Iraq. By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service. WASHINGTON, May 17, 2005 – The Defense Department ...
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsart ... x?id=31641

BBC NEWS | Technology | Firms point to biometric futureOct 26, 2006 ... Biometric system in Iraq (Photo: US Marine Cpl Spencer M Murphy). The US military use biometric systems to record suspects in Iraq (Photo: ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6070576.stm

EPIC - Iraqi Biometric ID SystemIraq Biometric Database Could Become a "Hit List," Acknowledges Defense Dept. ... The biometrics program manager in Iraq this week expressed concern that ...
http://epic.org/privacy/biometrics/iraq.html

In Hard Focus: Many Faces of Biometrics in IraqNov 6, 2007 ... Just back from Iraq, Wired writer/blogger Noah Shachtman offers some interesting details on the wide array of biometric technology being ...
http://inhardfocus.com/2007/11/many-fac ... -iraq.html


Biometrics Task Force
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATowdPuQGNY
@ 6 min mark
The Biometrics Task Force leads Department of Defense activities to program, integrate, and synchronize biometric technologies and capabilities and to operate and maintain DoD's authoritative biometric database to support the National Security Strategy.

Freedom Journal Iraq - Aug. 23
Added: August 24, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAm1T2bRzwM
This edition features stories on the improvement of Iraq's power infrastructure, U.S. Soldiers delivering bags of food to needy residents of an Iraqi town, and Soldiers using a biometrics device to record identification information. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Kurtz and Petty Officer 2nd Class Chad Bricks.

Freedom Watch Afghanistan - Aug. 28
Added: August 28, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axXNZHjhrcw
@ 2:40 min mark
This edition features stories on Afghan national army and coalition troops being ambushed by insurgents, Afghan and coalition troops destroying a Taliban heroin lab, and how troops are using devices to gather biometric information to identify Afghan nationals. Hosted by Tech. Sgt. Deb Decker.

Biometrics in Afghanistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-EjqmxH_wQ
Added: August 28, 2007
U.S. Soldiers using devices to gather biometric information on Afghan nationals to help discern the good guys from the bad.

FALLUJAH 3 OF 3
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t64n ... 3_politics

Residents were allowed to return to the city in mid-December after undergoing biometric identification, provided they carry their ID cards all the time. US officials report that "more than half of Fallujah's 39,000 homes were damaged, and about 10,000 of those were destroyed."

Compensation amounts to 20 percent of the value of damaged houses, with an estimated 32,000 homeowners eligible, according to Marine Lt. Col. William Brown. According to the NBC [32], 9,000 homes were destroyed, thousands more were damaged and of the 32,000 compensation claims only 2,500 had been paid as of April 14, 2005. According to Mike Marqusee of Iraq Occupation Focus writing in the Guardian, "Falluja's compensation commissioner has reported that 36,000 of the city's 50,000 homes were destroyed, along with 60 schools and 65 mosques and shrines".

Reconstruction is only progressing slowly and mainly consists of clearing rubble from heavily-damaged areas and reestablishing basic utility services. This is also due to the fact that only 10% of the pre-offensive inhabitants had returned as of mid-January, and only 30% as of the end of March 2005.

Pre-offensive inhabitant figures are unreliable; the nominal population was assumed to have been 200-350,000. Thus, over 150,000 individuals are still living as IDPs in harsh conditions in tent cities outside Fallujah or elsewhere in Iraq.

Insurgent control over the city was effectively destroyed by the operation. As the civilian population began to settle back into the city several reports of IED attacks on Iraqi and U.S. troops have begun to be reported in the press. Most notable of these attacks, was a suicide car bomb attack on June 23 2005 on a convoy that killed 6 Marines.



The Bomb Lady's current e-mail address is
<anh.duong@navy.mil>

Nguyet Anh Duong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyet_Anh_Duong

The "Bomb Lady" and finding out who you are - JEFF and what it means for you
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2007/1 ... llian.html

The Bomb Lady - December 10, 2007
http://ardentobservations.blogspot.com/ ... -lady.html

Spurred by Gratitude, 'Bomb Lady' Develops Better Weapons for U.S. (video)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 302_3.html

Her "standing ovation" ...
http://www.ourpublicservice.org/OPS/pre ... 0award.pdf

Powerpoint
http://www.biometrics.org/bc2007/presen ... ng_DOD.pdf

summary executions just got that much easier!
Friday, December 14, 2007
http://amcop.blogspot.com/2007/12/summa ... -much.html

Service to America National Security Medal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZUBoXXXpH8


The "Bomb Lady" and finding out who you are - JEFF and what it means for you
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Ardent Observervations and the Istanbullian drew our attention to "The Bomb Lady" Nguyet Anh Duong a disarminglt pretty Vietnamese / US weapons scientist and an article in Wapo about her recently receiving the the National Security Medal for significant contribution to the nation in activities related to national security.The blast from the thermobaric, or vacuum, bomb maintains its energy over a longer time and distance,enabling it to kill people hunkered deep underground.

"Her work is a significant reason that few U.S. soldiers died in hand-to-hand combat inside the Taliban's vast network of caves and tunnels in Afghanistan. Not only did she help us win the war, but we avoided the loss of many lives had we had to clear caves in a more traditional manner," said Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter presented Duong with the 2007 Service to America National Security Medal from the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service (PPS).

Duong dedicated her award to "the 58,000 names on the wall of the Vietnam War memorial and the 260,000 Vietnamese who died in order for people like me to earn a second chance at freedom."

She received a standing ovation.

(Pic of glamorous granny Senator Harman at a PPS Dinner)

The Bomb Lady's current e-mail address is anh.duong@navy.mil she also favours pink pearlescent nail polish (against her daughters wishes)

Born into an anti communist family, who fled to the US and were eventually granted asylum She graduated from the University of Maryland with both a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. degree in Computer Science and was launched on a 23 year distinguished career as a a weaposn scientist..

In 1983 she started working as a Chemical Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division.

From 1991-1999, she managed all Navy basic, exploratory research and advanced development programs in High Explosives.

From 1999-2002, she managed all NSWC Indian Head's technical programs in Explosives and Undersea Weapons, from concept through engineering development to production and demilitarization.

She successfully assembled and led a team of scientists and engineers to develop the payload for a new weapon, now known as the thermobaric bomb, then proceeded to limited production and delivery to the Air Force, all in an unprecedented period of 67 days.

Nguyet Anh successfully led the development and transition of a total of 10 high performing explosives into 18 different U.S. weapons in the past 12 years, which is an unprecedented record of its kind.

She served as a U.S. Delegate at the NATO AC310 Subgroup I for Explosives, and chairman/member of many national and international Panels/Technical Steering Groups.

Since 2002 Nguyet Anh has been Director of Science and Technology of Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Department of Defense,(Pentagon) where she is responsible for Indian Head's overall technical investment strategies, guiding and overseeing research and development programs in all areas of science and technology and focusing these efforts toward the creation of future weapon generations for the United States.

Duong's most recent innovation, the Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facilities (JEFF) project or "lab in a box," analyzes biometrics in the field. It will be delivered to Iraq at the beginning of 2008, the Navy said, to help distinguish insurgents from civilians. (Useful Power Point presentation here) (No.NO. not useful - essential reading 1st page pic at top of post)

"The best missile is worthless if you don't know who to shoot," Duong said.
Thomas A. Betro, director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service explains the military has been scanning the irises and taking the fingerprints of Iraqis, feeding a biometrics data base in West Virginia. To date, a few ad hoc labs have processed about 85,000 pieces of evidence taken from weapons caches or roadside devices. Duong's mobile forensic labs, with an initial budget of $34 million, will be deployed all over Iraq.

Duong, supervised the "lab in a box" design.

Each collapsible, sand-colored, 20 x 20 foot foot unit has its own generator and satellite link(see sexy pic of the facility) . If things go as planned, data will beamed to the Biometric Fusion Center to check against more than a million Iraqi fingerprints. Hundreds of Marines will become scen of crime investigators - donning rubber gloves and laying aside their weapons.

The next stage is to miniaturize, create "a backpack lab," so that soldiers who encounter a suspect "could find out within minutes" if he's on a terrorist watch list, Duong said. "A war fighter needs to know one of three things: Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot? In Vietnam, our guys didn't have this tool."

There are some interesting jobs being offered ...
Now how would such a mobile identification facility rest with a nationwide biometric Based ID card ?

Oh ! By the way the Bomb Lady keeps Harry Potter away from her kids .. too, too violent.

UPDATE : A nice take by American Coprophagia

http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2007/1 ... llian.html
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Postby Nordic » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:37 pm

Thanks, Elf! That's a mighty big dump there, son!

Might be in there for a while, starting later tonight ......
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Postby JackRiddler » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:30 am

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And now the Pentagon is getting ready to apply the methodology to Afghanistan under President Obama.

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