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Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base
wiredmikey writes "Britain is running a secret Internet surveillance station in the Middle East, according to a recent report citing the latest leaked documents obtained by fugitive US security contractor Edward Snowden. The Independent newspaper said it was not disclosing the country where the base is located, but said the facility can intercept emails, telephone calls and web traffic for the United States and other intelligence agencies and taps into underwater fibre-optic cables in the region, the newspaper said. The Independent did not disclose how it obtained the details from the Snowden files."
Sarcasm indeed. Considering muslims are the champions at killing other muslims I sure hope so. During their "holy" month this year they killed over a thousand of "their own": blew them up, hanged them publicly, shot them, cut their throats, the usual muslim behaviour. During the same period of time across the whole world there were two similarly violent incidents not related to islam although one was a reaction to islam (many buddhists are fed up with islam in Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand). The figures speak volumes.
I would be fine with that except I'm not fine with them doing the same where I live or against people in the muslim world who do not believe in such religious warfare or who at the very least don't try to hide their violence behind the concept of God or Man-as-God (dictators).
We're talking about greatness, not relevance, aren't we?
The British empire was full of asshattery, but also a great deal of philosophical, scientific, technological and practical productivity.
Modern Britain is a Politburo.