WNP Trips up Saddam Hussein and Leads to Capture

December 14, 2003
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit, where
he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The arrest
was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an insurgency
for months.

Sources from the U.S. Military Intelligence Division familiar with the
details of his capture disclosed today they had been monitoring cellular
telephone activity in Hussein's hometown of Tikrit using sophisticated
satellite eavesdropping technology. Apparently Hussein, in an effort to
further confound U.S. coalition efforts to capture him, had placed a
cellular call to a major cellular carrier in order to port his cellular
number to a new carrier pursuant to the Wireless Number Portability (WNP)
Act enacted on November 24, 2003. Not knowing they had Saddam Hussein on
the line, Customer Service representatives from the new cellular carrier had
placed Hussein on hold for over an hour while they attempted to transfer his
service to a new carrier thereby allowing intelligence officials to
intercept the call and trace it to Hussein's hiding place in Iraq where the
deposed dictator was soon thereafter captured in a pre-dawn raid by the U.S.
4th Infantry Division.

Major General Ricardo Sanchez, Supreme Commander of the coalition Occupation
Forces in Iraq, told the press in an early briefing that Hussein was
"cooperative and seemed resigned to his fate that it would take at least
five days more before his new cellular carrier would be able to complete the
transfer."

Thus far calls to President George Bush and White House Press Liason went
unanswered this morning as their telephone numbers were still in the process
of being transferred to new carriers.

A joint press release from AT&T, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint PCS and
Alltell today said, "We are working as hard as we can to expedite the
porting of numbers and improve the process by lowering hold and transfer
times now that this evil dictator, the world's greatest terrorist has
finally been captured."

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"Shizz In It" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:7J%[email protected]...
> December 14, 2003
> BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
where
> he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
arrest
> was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an insurgency
> for months.
>

Did he have the WMDs on him?

This is so scary for me. Saddam was guilty of being an evil dictator.

Bin Laden (sp) Attacked the United States. Does not the sight of those
buildings coming down and all those innocent people dying make anyone
angry? Is anyone not even worried that in his next attack you or one of
your loved ones may be hurt? Does it not bother anyone that right after
we were attacked our president promised to hunt Bin laden down? Does
anyone find it scary that one man can divert an entire nation from it's
attacker to another cause?

Saddam is captured great now what about the man who attacked this country
what about him? Earth to America WAKE UP


> December 14, 2003
> BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
> where he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday.
> The arrest was a major victory for the coalition that has been
> battling an insurgency for months.
>
> Sources from the U.S. Military Intelligence Division familiar with the
> details of his capture disclosed today they had been monitoring
> cellular telephone activity in Hussein's hometown of Tikrit using
> sophisticated satellite eavesdropping technology. Apparently Hussein,
> in an effort to further confound U.S. coalition efforts to capture
> him, had placed a cellular call to a major cellular carrier in order
> to port his cellular number to a new carrier pursuant to the Wireless
> Number Portability (WNP) Act enacted on November 24, 2003. Not
> knowing they had Saddam Hussein on the line, Customer Service
> representatives from the new cellular carrier had placed Hussein on
> hold for over an hour while they attempted to transfer his service to
> a new carrier thereby allowing intelligence officials to intercept the
> call and trace it to Hussein's hiding place in Iraq where the deposed
> dictator was soon thereafter captured in a pre-dawn raid by the U.S.
> 4th Infantry Division.
>
> Major General Ricardo Sanchez, Supreme Commander of the coalition
> Occupation Forces in Iraq, told the press in an early briefing that
> Hussein was "cooperative and seemed resigned to his fate that it would
> take at least five days more before his new cellular carrier would be
> able to complete the transfer."
>
> Thus far calls to President George Bush and White House Press Liason
> went unanswered this morning as their telephone numbers were still in
> the process of being transferred to new carriers.
>
> A joint press release from AT&T, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint
> PCS and Alltell today said, "We are working as hard as we can to
> expedite the porting of numbers and improve the process by lowering
> hold and transfer times now that this evil dictator, the world's
> greatest terrorist has finally been captured."
>
>
>
>
>

> "Shizz In It" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:7J%[email protected]...
> > December 14, 2003
> > BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> > Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
> where
> > he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
> arrest
> > was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an
insurgency
> > for months.
> >
>
> Did he have the WMDs on him?

Saddam Hussein is a WMD!

May he be properly disposed of! :-)

CSS wrote:

> "Shizz In It" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:7J%[email protected]...
>> December 14, 2003
>> BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
>> Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
> where
>> he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
> arrest
>> was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an insurgency
>> for months.
>>
>
> Did he have the WMDs on him?
>
>
Naw. The only lunatic running around with WMDs is the AG of the USA.

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> BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
where
> he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
arrest
> was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an insurgency
> for months.

If only this were true...

"mistaroboto" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:nX0Db.707041$9l5.402868@pd7tw2no...
> > BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> > Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
> where
> > he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
> arrest
> > was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an
insurgency
> > for months.
>
> If only this were true...

Maybe he moved to that hole in the ground because he couldn't get
in-building coverage. After all, that's what the carriers would have the
rest of us do.


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In article <7J%[email protected]>,=20
[email protected] says...
> Apparently Hussein, in an effort to
> further confound U.S. coalition efforts to capture him, had placed a
> cellular call to a major cellular carrier in order to port his cellular
> number to a new carrier pursuant to the Wireless Number Portability (WNP)
> Act enacted on November 24, 2003. Not knowing they had Saddam Hussein on
> the line, Customer Service representatives from the new cellular carrier =
had
> placed Hussein on hold for over an hour while they attempted to transfer =
his
> service to a new carrier thereby allowing intelligence officials to
> intercept the call and trace it to Hussein's hiding place in Iraq where t=
he
> deposed dictator was soon thereafter captured in a pre-dawn raid by the U=
..S.
> 4th Infantry Division.
>=20

LOLOL.

See? There's a method to the madness!

Thanks for the laugh, man.

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I *don't* speak for them.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:42:06 GMT, "Carl." <[email protected]> wrote:

>"mistaroboto" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:nX0Db.707041$9l5.402868@pd7tw2no...
>> > BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
>> > Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
>> where
>> > he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
>> arrest
>> > was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an
>insurgency
>> > for months.
>>
>> If only this were true...
>
>Maybe he moved to that hole in the ground because he couldn't get
>in-building coverage.

That's right - what the technologically-illiterate news media have been calling
a "breathing tube" was actually an extended cellular antenna.

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What, have you been sleeping for the last two years? I think you've been
holding your phone too close to your head.


"Harry Krause" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> CSS wrote:

> Naw. The only lunatic running around with WMDs is the AG of the USA.
>
> --
> Email sent to [email protected] is never read.

Please don't feed Harry Krause. To see why, go read rec.boats for the
last few years.......

Ignore him and pray he goes back to rec.boats.....


On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:46:40 -0600, "Jim Dawson" <2dawson@c h a r t e
r.net> wrote:

>What, have you been sleeping for the last two years? I think you've been
>holding your phone too close to your head.
>
>
>"Harry Krause" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> CSS wrote:
>
>> Naw. The only lunatic running around with WMDs is the AG of the USA.
>>
>> --
>> Email sent to [email protected] is never read.
>
>

Larry W4CSC

NNNN

"Carl." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> Maybe he moved to that hole in the ground because he couldn't get
> in-building coverage. After all, that's what the carriers would have the
> rest of us do.

I doubt it. Iraq is 900 Mhz GSM. 1800/1900 Mhz is considered a WMD.

Larry W4CSC wrote:

> Please don't feed Harry Krause. To see why, go read rec.boats for the
> last few years.......
>
> Ignore him and pray he goes back to rec.boats.....
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:46:40 -0600, "Jim Dawson" <2dawson@c h a r t e
> r.net> wrote:
>
>>What, have you been sleeping for the last two years? I think you've been
>>holding your phone too close to your head.
>>
>>
>>"Harry Krause" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> CSS wrote:
>>
>>> Naw. The only lunatic running around with WMDs is the AG of the USA.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Email sent to [email protected] is never read.
>>
>>
>
> Larry W4CSC
>
> NNNN
>


Larry, Larry, Larry, I promised I wouldn't comment on your years of
mental illnesses, and I won't.



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"Shizz In It" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:7J%[email protected]...
> December 14, 2003
> BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
where
> he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
arrest
> was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an insurgency
> for months.
>
> Sources from the U.S. Military Intelligence Division familiar with the
> details of his capture disclosed today they had been monitoring cellular
> telephone activity in Hussein's hometown of Tikrit using sophisticated
> satellite eavesdropping technology. Apparently Hussein, in an effort to
> further confound U.S. coalition efforts to capture him, had placed a
> cellular call to a major cellular carrier in order to port his cellular
> number to a new carrier pursuant to the Wireless Number Portability (WNP)
> Act enacted on November 24, 2003. Not knowing they had Saddam Hussein on
> the line, Customer Service representatives from the new cellular carrier
had
> placed Hussein on hold for over an hour while they attempted to transfer
his
> service to a new carrier thereby allowing intelligence officials to
> intercept the call and trace it to Hussein's hiding place in Iraq where
the
> deposed dictator was soon thereafter captured in a pre-dawn raid by the
U.S.
> 4th Infantry Division.
>
> Major General Ricardo Sanchez, Supreme Commander of the coalition
Occupation
> Forces in Iraq, told the press in an early briefing that Hussein was
> "cooperative and seemed resigned to his fate that it would take at least
> five days more before his new cellular carrier would be able to complete
the
> transfer."
>
> Thus far calls to President George Bush and White House Press Liason went
> unanswered this morning as their telephone numbers were still in the
process
> of being transferred to new carriers.
>
> A joint press release from AT&T, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint PCS
and
> Alltell today said, "We are working as hard as we can to expedite the
> porting of numbers and improve the process by lowering hold and transfer
> times now that this evil dictator, the world's greatest terrorist has
> finally been captured."
>
>
>
>

"Steven M. Scharf" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Carl." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> > Maybe he moved to that hole in the ground because he couldn't get
> > in-building coverage. After all, that's what the carriers would have
the
> > rest of us do.
>
> I doubt it. Iraq is 900 Mhz GSM. 1800/1900 Mhz is considered a WMD.

If not, maybe the $750K was being saved up for his early termination fee.


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