[lbo-talk] Israel uses sound technology to disperse protest

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 4 13:36:08 PDT 2005


Bryan posted:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/584191.html

Israel uses sound technology to disperse riot

On Friday, the IDF unveiled a new crowd-dispersal tactic, emitting painful bursts of sound at a special frequency to help break up the demonstration, military officials and witnesses said.

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This probably was a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), a product of American Technology Corporation.

See the following for capabilities brochure style details:

<http://www.atcsd.com/gov.html >

Reportedly, some American units in Iraq are also equipped with this weapon.

See...

<http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/03/sonic.weapon.ap/ >

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