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Rebels Hijack Gadhafi's Phone Network

Posted April 13, 2011 4:24 PM

From The Wall Street Journal:

A team led by a Libyan-American telecom executive has helped rebels hijack Col. Moammar Gadhafi's cellphone network and re-establish their own communications. The new network, first plotted on an airplane napkin and assembled with the help of oil-rich Arab nations, is giving more than two million Libyans their first connections to each other and the outside world after Col. Gadhafi cut off their telephone and Internet service about a month ago.

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Re: Rebels Hijack Gadafi's Phone Network

04/14/2011 11:38 PM

"Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, asked about the rebel cellphone network, said he hadn't heard of it."

You'd think that would be when a reporter realized they had just secreted a tactical secret and an allies media stopped typing.

I'm sure Colonel Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi <note 2 d's) is delighted to receive this telling of who, where, when, why and what to hit.

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