Jim Oberg wrote:
JimO asks -- what can this report mean? What technical capability
is being referred to, and in how garbled a form? As of now, I have no
reason
to believe this CBS/AFP story has any credibility. Can anybody
enlighten me?

US satellite recorded checkpoint shooting, shows speed of Italian
car: CBS
Fri ...

I can only guess that this is a mangled report.
Maybe the Italian guards had a GPS receiver in
their car from which a log was retrieved post-
incident? (Thus the "satellite" part of the
story?) Even a cheap GPS receiver typically
stores a position log and calculates speed.

- Ed Kyle