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Banned: Mobile calls while Bush in Sydney
AAP
16 May 2007 10:10 AM
AAP
Mobile phone calls in Sydney's CBD will be blocked by a sophisticated counter-terrorism measure to prevent bomb attacks during US President George Bush's September APEC visit.
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The president's motorcade will be shadowed by a helicopter equipped with signal-jamming equipment, News Limited newspapers reported.
Terrorists have used mobile phones to detonate remote-controlled bombs in Iraq and in the second Bali bomb attacks.
It is expected mobile phone calls will drop out in an area the size of a football field as the helicopter passes overhead.
The technology was first used by the US president when Bush attended the APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea, in 2005.
