NYPD Eyes Disrupting Cell Phones in Event of Terrorist Attack

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Another brilliant idea.

Via FOXNews.com.

[snip]

The New York Police Department is looking for ways to disrupt cell phone
calls and other forms of electronic communication among terrorists in the
event of another terror attack in New York, Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly says.

The need to disrupt communications is one of several conclusions that the
NYPD has drawn from studying the November attack in Mumbai, India, a
three-day rampage by machine gun and grenade-wielding Islamic militants in
which at least 165 people were killed and 304 were wounded.

Kelly is scheduled to discuss this and other "lessons learned" in testimony
Thursday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs. A draft copy of his statement was shared with FOX News in advance
of his appearance.

Kelly stressed the need for law enforcement to be able to disrupt cell
phone calls and other communications during an attack, pointing to threats
posed by the media when they disclose law enforcement tactics during live
coverage that can get passed back to the attackers.

[snip]

More:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/08/nypd-interrupt-cell-phone-servic
e-event-terrorist-attack/

- - ferg

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