[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Cymbelline Mortar Locating Radar..this system has been around for yonks and was an EMI product. Basically the radar tracked mortars and I suppose shells, and then calculated the reverse trajectory and then relayed the co-ordinates to enable fire to be directed straight onto the targets. In the case of Basra it appears that the system tracked mortars being fired by the militia against the uprising. My mother was secretary to AVM Orton who was EMI's sales manager.

Quotation from Shakespeare's play Cymbelline -

"Laud we the gods;
And let not our crooked smoke climb to their nostrils
From our blest altars. Publish we this peace...
Let a Roman and a British ensign wave
Friendly together....
Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace."

I suppose one has to subsitute "Roman" with "United States", and "Caesar" with "George Walker Bush, Jr".