Libyan Rebels Hijack Gaddafi’s Cell Phones
Those pesky Libyan rebels have gone and practiced Asymmetrical warfare (4th generation warfare!) on good old Colonel Gaddafi.
*(also spelled- (1) Muammar Qaddafi, (2) Mo’ammar Gadhafi, (3) Muammar Kaddafi, (4) Muammar Qadhafi, (5) Moammar El Kadhafi, (6) Muammar Gadafi, (7) Mu’ammar al-Qadafi, (8) Moamer El Kazzafi, (9) Moamar al-Gaddafi, (10) Mu’ammar Al Qathafi, (11) Muammar Al Qathafi, (12) Mo’ammar el-Gadhafi, (13) Moamar El Kadhafi, (14) Muammar al-Qadhafi, (15) Mu’ammar al-Qadhdhafi, (16) Mu’ammar Qadafi, (17) Moamar Gaddafi, (18) Mu’ammar Qadhdhafi, (19) Muammar Khaddafi, (20) Muammar al-Khaddafi, (21) Mu’amar al-Kadafi, (22) Muammar Ghaddafy, (23) Muammar Ghadafi, (24) Muammar Ghaddafi, (25) Muamar Kaddafi, (26) Muammar Quathafi, (27) Muammar Gheddafi, (28) Muamar Al-Kaddafi, (29) Moammar Khadafy, (30) Moammar Qudhafi, (31) Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, (32) Mulazim Awwal Mu’ammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi.)
The new network, rigged up with help from U.S.-trained Arab engineers, is giving many Libyans their first chance in a month to contact loved ones and see if they’re dead or alive. The Libyan dictator shut down all Internet service and mobile phone links to the rebel-held east more than a month ago. And as chaos and fighting spread, outages have hit huge swaths of the whole country as well.
Now tech-savvy rebels have managed to pirate part of the Libyana cellphone network — a government entity that’s owned and operated by the Tripoli-based Libyan General Telecommunications Authority and run by Gadhafi’s eldest son, Mohamed. The rebels split off a branch of it to use as their own independent network. So it’s Gadhafi’s very own signal system that’s being used to transmit messages among his opponents.
The plan was masterminded by a 31-year-old Libyan engineer who grew up in Alabama and now lives in Abu Dhabi.