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UK Police Chief: Some Tech Companies Are 'Friendly To Terrorists'
An anonymous reader points out comments from Mark Rowley, the UK's national police lead for counter-terrorism, who thinks tech companies aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from using their services. He said, "[The acceleration of technology] can be set up in a way which is friendly to terrorists and helps them ... and creates challenges for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Or it can be set up in a way which doesn't do that." Rowley wouldn't name which companies in particular he's talking about, but he added, "Snowden has created an environment where some technology companies are less comfortable working with law reinforcement and intelligence agencies and the bad guys are better informed. We all love the benefit of the internet and all the rest of it, but we need their support in making sure that they're doing everything possible to stop their technology being exploited by terrorists. I'm saying that needs to be front and center of their thinking and for some it is and some it isn't."
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Iraq didn't attack the USA. The USA used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq. After (some of) the people caught on, they used WMDs as an excuse. After some more people caught on, they switched to using "spreading democracy" as an excuse. Of course, the real reason had to do with oil and getting Halliburton rich, but most of the public still believes the democracy ruse.
As for Afghanistan, we didn't really do anything to them. Sure, we got Bin Laden, but by that time he was almost dead anyway and that was just for political posturing by Obama, not to stop any real threat.
Both sides have committed acts of terror since the late 40's, as an example take the assassination of Swedish UN mediator Folke Bernadotte in 1948 by Isrealites, for which Shimon Peres expressed "regret that Bernadotte was murdered in a terrorist way," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte#Assassination For anyone willing to view both sides in the conflict with an equally critical eye it quickly become apparent that both have committed acts of terror in the past and continue to do so today.
Quite a bit happened before the seals choppered into a complex then shot him and dumped his body in the ocean. Is anyone even sure that happened, if it did I doubt it did the way they say it did..
Nearly everybody in the complex killed and who remained has never even been brought forward to account for events. The most hated man was shot on sight instead of being drug into a kangaroo court to be humiliated for a year before being put to death just like every other villain the US put its hands on. His body was respectfully buried in a conveniently unrecoverable and unspecific location. The trumpets weren't even continuously sounded for political and military benefit with no end when even that silly "mission accomplished" presentation was stretched far too long.
Yeah, I'd imagine you are right. One big obvious question is: why isn't anyone talking about it?
Nonsense. Many important allies of the US such as Germany and France opposed the invasion. The veto of the Russians was not a slap in the face (this is business as usual). A slap in the face was that the foreign minister of a close ally directly questions the "evidence" for WMD presented officially as justification to invade a foreign country.