"If you attempt to leave port, you will be attacked and destroyed immediately." This was the message broadcast by a secret U.S. military propaganda plane in the skies around Libya on Saturday night, just as air strikes commenced.
The "Commando Solo" aircraft told Libyan ships to remain in port, or risk NATO retaliation—and a Dutch radio geek monitoring the airwaves for information about "Operation Odyssey Dawn" heard the transmission and tweeted it.
This from Wired Danger Room's Noah Shachtman, who reports:
On Sunday alone, "Huub" has identified the tail numbers, call signs, and movements of dozens of NATO aircraft: Italian fighter jets, American tankers, British aerial spies, U.S. bombers, and the Commando Solo psyops plane.
Listen to the US warning in English, French, then Arabic, here:
You can follow the Frequency Monitor Centre in the Netherlands here on Twitter.
Read the whole story at Wired Danger Room.
(thanks, Noah Shachtman)
