Various Technologies Used to Hunt Saddam (flying robots?)

[Rose Siding]

Various Technologies Used to Hunt Saddam

TIKRIT, Iraq -- The Americans are hunting Saddam Hussein using tattered documents, dusty tanks -- and satellites and flying robots.

The U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, dubbed the "digital division" because of the technology it uses, is combining the low-tech skills of traditional soldiering with high-tech gadgets in its hunt for the fugitive Iraqi dictator.

The cavernous hall of one of Saddam's palaces is illuminated by computer screens as soldiers work, listening to the latest television news updates on the hunt for the ousted dictator.

Overhead, satellites record movement along the Iraqi terrain, spy-planes scour hiding spots with thermal scans and unmanned drones feed live video to division headquarters, said Lt. Col. Ted Martin, the division's operations officer.

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[Maple]

1. Look! In the sky!

It's the comic book presidency!

[5X]

5. must send crayons

to bush so he can finish his books for the bush library after we retire him.

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Screw that kid stuff, get Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robo!!!

[Resistance Is Futile]

3. Not mecha. UAVs.

UAVs. E.G. Predator and GlobalHawk.

[Sinistrous]

4. Do you mean to tell me that

Condosleeza Rice hasn't loosed her army of flying monkeys yet?????

[Rose Siding]

6. I enjoyed that!

I'm sure she's pedaling as fast as she can :-)

[TheReligiousLeft]

7. I'll get you my pretty, and your little voting boxes too! (nt)

[On the Road]

8. For Some Reason

I keep thinking of the scene in The 39 Steps where the hero is fleeing across the Scottish moor chased by bobbies and this strange old helicopter plane thingy up in the sky.

I don't know whether to hope Saddam is captured or not. Maybe it would bring closure, but it would be the wrong sort of closure.