radio traffic "extraordinary" because of the unprecedented length of messages.

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070706/NATION04/107060076&template=nextpage

The opposition group also has identified Qods Force bases near the Iran-Iraq border, and said the Iranian Embassy and Qods Force terrorists are linked to the Shi'ite Badr Brigade death squads in Iraq. The Qods Force leaders are using diplomatic cover to work with pro-Iranian political parties in Iraq.


Gen. Bergner said Monday that the Iranian paramilitary Qods Force has been supporting terrorists engaged in bombings, kidnappings, extortion, sectarian slayings, illegal arms trafficking and other attacks against Iraqi citizens, police, army and coalition forces and that Iranians are spending $750,000 to $3 million a month to back the insurgents.

....


A U.S. military official said the radio traffic was monitored from the Air Force Global High Frequency System (GHFS) that some observers regarded as "extraordinary" because of the unprecedented length of messages. They were sent to Air Force commanders at Andrews Air Force Base; Wideawake Airfield on Ascension Island; Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska; Andersen Air Force Base, Guam; Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii; Lajes Field in the Azores; Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska; Salinas Air Base, Puerto Rico; Thule Air Base, Greenland; and Yokota Air Base, Japan. All are sites of GHFS ground stations.


A retired Air Force general said the strategic nuclear forces also dispatch command action messages that are part of a nuclear command system that requires force commanders to respond within two minutes.

[monktonman]

1. War on monday morning?

is this what we're talking about?
Itseemslikeadream indeed.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Iranian terrorism - They're just trying to "get" us in the mood

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070706/NATION04/107060076

Iranian terrorism

Army Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, chief spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq, revealed this week the extensive Iranian government involvement in arming terrorists in Iraq through Lebanese Hezbollah proxies.

"The reality of this is they're not only killing American forces, they're killing Iraqis, they're killing Iraqi security forces, and they are disrupting the stability in Iraq, and it's a concern for the government of Iraq, for the Iraqi forces and the Iraqi people, that they would expect their neighbor to play a more helpful and less damaging role in their country," Gen. Bergner told reporters.

The Iranians and Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists train groups of 20 to 60 Iraqi terrorists in Iran, he said.

An Iranian opposition group in Paris provided additional information from its sources on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force activities in Iraq.





Navy training to raid Iran

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1401003

[Wiley50]

5. I find it Interesting that the Times chose to bundle those three stories together

Prepping us for Iran Attack

Intimating that China might have a Nuclear response to such action

Noting that our Strategic Nuclear forces are ready for any such response

Keep it up, SLAD

I ALWAYS FIND YOUR POSTS MOST ENLIGHTENING

[mediaman007]

3. This is fabulous (sarcasm)! We know that they are sending long

messages, but we apparently can't break the code or don't have enough interpreters to understand what they are saying.

Oh, that's right...our interpreters are Gay!

and we're more concerned about intercepting domestic conversations/information.


The last six years remind me of a Don Knotts movie!

[MilesColtrane]

4. Hopefully, the Pentagon was telling base commanders to ignore any messages...

...from acting President Cheney yesterday.

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. I doubt anyone in the AF is using HF to move...

..messages to and from US overseas installations any more.

If they're short, they're VLF, they're Navy, and being sent to SSBM's. VLF requires very low data rate.