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Echelon Used to Capture Terrorist
An anonymous reader writes "Echelon was used to track and capture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed." Ahh, bitter sweet victories. The article kind of explains what Echelon is, and pretty much says that those disposable phones really don't have much security at all.
I thought that Pakistan "found" him by looking at the address on the paycheck they sent him every month?
The only question I have about the whole thing is why Pakistan betrayed this fellow now.
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Sounds like an old fashioned bribe did the trick and not an overprized government toilet project. Funny, how the media plays right into their greedy, warmongering little hands: [Paraphrasing CNN] "Millions rallied in major cities throughout the world to protest the upcoming war; and in breaking news, fifty war supporters rallied in [insert nondescript American small-town] and dumped French wine down sewer."
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Indirectly, YES.
The US has a reputation of supporting anybody that makes them money. i.e. the royal family of Saudi Arabia (home of a certain mr. Bin Laden), Saddam (Before he invaded another US supported oil state), the Sjah of Iran, Israel (Who has occupied palestinian territory for 40 years and violated more UN resolutions than Iraq). In all cases people are/were oppressed and fundamentalists offered a way out: go to heaven if you fight for a just cause against the big evil.
A lot of people in the western would agree that the US isn't know for having ethics in such cases (democracy and freedom appearantly are only important if you are a US citizen). It is not hard to see how somebody who grew up worse conditions would see it as plain evil instead of stupid.
It still doesn't justify terrorism but it sure explains why people do things like this.
If the US was to threat people with respect (not exactly the capitalist way I know...) there would be far less terrorists.
Jeroen
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