[nfbwatlk] Blind detective

[Carl Jarvis]

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Private eye, indee.
Private ear is the wave of the future.
Carl Jarvis

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From: "Nightingale, Noel" <Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov>
To: <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:18 AM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Blind detective



INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

EUROPE HAS NEW COUNTERTERRORISM WEAPON: BLIND DETECTIVES

Sacha van Loo, 36, is not your typical cop. He wields a white cane instead 
of a gun. And from the purr of an engine on a wiretap, he can discern 
whether
a suspect is driving a Peugeot, a Honda or a Mercedes.

Van Loo is one of Europe's newest weapons in the global fight against 
terrorism and organized crime: a blind Sherlock Holmes, whose disability 
allows him
to spot clues sighted detectives don't see.

When police eavesdrop on a suspected terrorist making a phone call, van Loo 
can listen to the tones dialed and immediately identify the number. By 
hearing
the sound of a voice echoing off of a wall, he can deduce whether a suspect 
is speaking from an airport lounge or a crowded restaurant. After the 
Belgian
police recently spent hours struggling to identify a drug smuggler on a 
faint wiretap recording, they concluded he was Moroccan. Van Loo, who has a 
"library
of accents in his head," listened and deduced he was Albanian, a fact 
confirmed after his arrest.

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8100944




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