41. Now radar dishes from satellite phones share the field out front with a camel, four goats and a cow. 42. On Monday, Ahmed Karzai said he had spoken to Hamid Karzai twice by satellite phone and had been told that he was still in the region of Derawat. 43. One woman in the crowd, Candice Donmoyer, said that she had heard by satellite phone two days ago from a Special Forces friend in Afghanistan. 44. Pro-independence political leaders used satellite phones throughout the two-week bloodbath to communicate information to reporters and diplomats overseas. 45. Permitted by captors to speak with their parents by satellite phone, they felt compassion and even affection toward several Taliban guards, they say. 46. Rebel commanders continued negotiating with Taliban factions inside the besieged city, through intermediaries and by satellite phone. 47. Rescue workers are supplied with satellite phones, and command posts with computers to coordinate communications. 48. Residents can circumvent government controls by connecting to the Web through foreign-based servers and through satellite phones or by using the file transfer protocol. 49. Satellite phones are prohibitively expensive. 50. So the Chapmans suspected their son had been sent to Afghanistan after he called on Christmas morning from a satellite phone. |