How about testing it in Iran?
Bruce http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/16/europe/EU_GEN_Greece_NATO_Terroris m.php NATO tests anti-terrorism technology at large exercise in Greece The Associated Press Twelve NATO countries completed an exercise in western Greece on Thursday aimed at coordinating surveillance systems and preventing terrorist attacks, but officials said the threat posed by low-tech weapons such as roadside bombs remained a major problem for alliance forces in Afghanistan. The eight-day Trial Spartan Hammer 06 exercise involved special forces from six countries, systems to block the U.S. Global Positioning System signals and a new U.S.-built miniature spy plane. "We had many scenarios in which NATO countries worked together to deal with terrorism threats ... the role of special forces is increasing. The bad guys should be afraid," said Marshall Billingsea, NATO's assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment. He did not say which countries other than Greece had sent special forces to participate. A senior Greek officer involved in the trials said the scenarios included the rescue-versus-pursuit of airmen stranded behind enemy lines, detection and concealment of ground surveillance equipment and a mock terrorist attack against a warship by a dinghy loaded with explosives. The exercise involved 36 military aircraft, nine warships and input from six bases in Greece as well as facilities in France and Italy. Participating NATO countries were Germany, Greece, France, Italy, the United States, Britain, Canada, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Poland. Billingsea said recent advances in explosive detection technology and devices that interfere with bomb mechanisms could help stop terror attacks in the future. But he said NATO still faced difficulties in making systems from different countries compatible, and threats from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. "IEDs are the biggest killer in Afghanistan ... It's a low-tech weapon, a huge problem," Billingsea said. "Technology has a role ... but training human beings is also very important." Military personnel in the exercise tested the ultralight CyberBug unmanned spy plane - the size of a kite and loaded with wireless cameras and sensors - manufactured by the Florida-based company CyberDefense Systems and first demonstrated in the United States earlier this year. "The advantage is that it's silent and can hover above the source of the threat without them realizing it," said Col. George Geroulis, the chief Greek organizing officer of the exercise. "All this equipment was very beneficial for our special forces - they had real-time information from land and sea." The Greek exercise follows NATO's Trial Hammer 05 last year and based in Germany and expanded trials to involve all three branches of the armed forces. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
