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Re: Rumsfeld let Bin Laden escape in 2001, says Senate reportInquiry says US failure to attack al-Qaida's leader at Tora Bora had far-reaching consequences

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Linda, those buildings house the fiber optics that carry all long distance phone service and the Internet. They were built so that one bomb could not black out or sub-divide the country. When they were built they also connected all government offices and things like the airport towers over private networks.


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Re: Rumsfeld let Bin Laden escape in 2001, says Senate reportInquiry says US failure to attack al-Qaida's leader at Tora Bora had far-reaching consequences
By: lkorrow
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Thu, 05 May 11 9:10 PM
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dg, that's amazing. I guess the bolts had to be special for that job. Probably was the same deal. I think they figured there's more redundancy in the private network so they use that now. But in the age of high altitude nukes, maybe that should be re-thought.

The mainframe computers were on platforms that had springs. I can't imagine how they would survive compression and decompression.

Maybe now that the locations are so known, they have mostly moved on....

That was one of the neatest trips, though. We had an actual business meeting, btw, it wasn't a lark. Very Happy


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