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Former NSA Spies Hacked BBC Host, Al Jazeera Chairman for UAE (reuters.com)
A UAE cyber espionage contractor staffed with several former U.S. intelligence agents hacked journalists or news executives at Al Jazeera, the BBC, Al Arabi and others throughout June 2017, Reuters reported Monday. From the report: The American operatives worked for Project Raven, a secret Emirati intelligence program that spied on dissidents, militants and political opponents of the UAE monarchy. A Reuters investigation in January revealed Project Raven's existence and inner workings, including the fact that it surveilled a British activist and several unnamed U.S. journalists. The Raven operatives -- who included at least nine former employees of the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.S. military -- found themselves thrust into the thick of a high-stakes dispute among America's Gulf allies. The Americans' role in the UAE-Qatar imbroglio highlights how former U.S. intelligence officials have become key players in the cyber wars of other nations, with little oversight from Washington.
The crisis erupted in the spring of 2017, when the UAE and allies -- including Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- accused Qatar of sowing unrest in the Middle East through its support of media outlets and political groups. The UAE camp demanded Qatar take a series of actions, including shuttering the Qatar-funded Al Jazeera satellite television network, withdrawing funding from other media outlets Doha supports, and cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic movement some Arab governments regard as a threat.
The crisis erupted in the spring of 2017, when the UAE and allies -- including Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- accused Qatar of sowing unrest in the Middle East through its support of media outlets and political groups. The UAE camp demanded Qatar take a series of actions, including shuttering the Qatar-funded Al Jazeera satellite television network, withdrawing funding from other media outlets Doha supports, and cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic movement some Arab governments regard as a threat.
The NSA teaches them how to spy on their own people and then they ply this trade around all the world's slavestates. How is this a surprise?
People loose their ethics if offered enough money Film at 11
Acting as a mercenary is illegal in some countries. It's time to make it so for the US as well and include the digital domain and the Internet in the list in cursive for the coolness factor.
the biggest bully on the school yard, and UAE wasn't their very own IS-law-based "best friend" in the region.
I hope the UAE, Pakistan, Erdogan, etc develop warp technology and travel to another rotten planet, together with their puppet master USA, so they can bash each other back to the stone age.
Oh, wait! They're already there!
Can they please move to a different planet anyway? How about Venus? Or Saggitarius A * a?
Or your real name and address.
And political affiliations, sexual interests, religious or other beliefs, bank account access data, all user names and passwords, all posts you ever made privately, and everything you ever said.
And purely statistically, I will find about 5000 people on this planet, who have the means, the will, and the reason to bloody murder you for it.
At least one of them will be your own government, given that if there is an action, then there is a law making it a crime. (Unless you're clerical or corporate nobility.)
It's actually fairly common for Americans to sell out and work for other nation states. It's one of our primary risk factors, HUMINT wise.
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Modded down by gay, white-boy christian faggot.
So when Bezo's claimed that he was hacked by Saudi Arabia,
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/31...
it was really US NSA operatives that hacked him.. got it....
not sure if it's all that smart to screw with the worlds richest man.
Just for the record, the whole "Allah's will" bit is a bit overblown. First off, Allah is so other as to not actually have a will. And Allah isn't really a He, not even an it. To put a finer theological point on it, Allah doesn't really have a name which would mean an "it". You'd have to go into Early Christian and Jewish theology to get at the notion. It is more akin to Buddhism without the divine being internal. The way I understand the situation is that Allah is more akin to the fabric of space and time, but not as real, being outside of space and time.
Sound mysterious? It is. Sound like bullshit? I tend to think it is. Most Muslims get it all wrong, so do Christians and Jews. But then the notions are more philosophical than real and most people have no tolerance to argue at that level. They'd prefer a G-d who comes a'smiting this and a'smoting that....or if you are a Prosperity Christian, G-d wants you to be rich so give to your favorite Preacher... a lot...yes it is paradoxical, G-d's one weird dude in modern Christianity. Or if you are an Evangelical, Trump is the new Christ and you can feel secure in hating them foreigners...especially the border hoppers.
Also known as NOC.
"As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds."
Have gnu, will travel.
Man, you really put everything into perspective. I'll just the let dead homosexuals know this and everything will be fine. Thanks for the insight.
Dead homosexuals, you mean log cabin Republicans? They're just sleeping during this neo-nazi phase their incel boyfriend is going through.
Man that's some polished turd you have there. Like maybe no one wants to argue with you because.... man you just come up with conclusions with no evidence or references..... sort of like Trump basically.
To be fair..." I'm right if I keep insisting" tactic will wear most people out so unless they have some leverage over you ..... just by insisting all the way you will never "lose". Which is exactly what Trump does and very few really have the patience or tolerance to talk to brick walls for extended periods of time.
Showing things from the perspective of the oppressed in places such as Palestine, no doubt.
> Sound like bullshit? I tend to think it is.
And yet you still can't bring yourself to put the 'o' in 'god'. Unless you're being ironic, of course.
msmash really has a nose for finding the most informative *cough cough* news *cough cough cough* articles *cough cough cough cough* all around.
My aunt worked in the "business". You have been told secrets.
As long as those secrets are in you, you continue to be in. So you're never really out. You just are left alone for *most* of the time.
You are still watched, to avoid leaks.
You still get the special forces extracting you in case you are kidnapped or something.
So yeah, "former" doesn't mean as much as you think it does.
... yeah, we won't admit you're a spy.... BUT we will also have the special forces extract you.
Because it's our secrets on the line too!
You are even expected to call the special number if you are in danger ... while you still can.
Did you nut really read the bible, or how do you think being Christian is compatible with being gay?
Or wearing clothes of two diifferend threads for that matter. ^^
This is just the pumping.
Its purpose is to make people afraid and hate each other, so weapons can be sold for money.
Didn't you know? If you're against breeding terrorists, you're against Americans, American economy, a truly free market, and job creation. ;)
at least nine former employees of the U.S. National Security Agency
"former members" of criminal groups are still criminals. It does not matter if they are Mafia, MAFIAA, US spooks or whatever. Whether they wear suits (Al Capones ones did) or jeans and T-shirts, they are criminals of varying legality.
Most gangs are not happy let you really leave. Whether it is a street gang, or the CIA, you are regarded as still being bound by their rules. Some groups promise violence if you try and leave, others just refuse to recognise that if you leave, you are no longer part of them and bound by their special culture. Leavers may be threatened with violence, death, kidnapping and confinement but they don't let you leave.
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
We should start spelling Allah as "-ll-h". Except then nobody would know what the hell we were talking about.
reporting on the saudi war vs yemen.
Actually, Al Jazeera's "sin" was simply being funded by Qatar, a state that Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, and others are trying to strangle for doing business with regional nemesis Iran.
A UAE cyber espionage contractor staffed with several former U.S. intelligence agents hacked journalists or news executives at Al Jazeera, the BBC, Al Arabi and others throughout June 2017, Reuters reported Monday.
What an irony. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we had this fear (not that irrational mind you) of unemployed former USSR agents selling their (insert Liam Neeson's voice) "very particular set of skills", nukes and shit to whatever rogue state, terror groups or criminal syndicates.
We even made movies out of that shit.
And yet, 2019 comes and says "hi, here you are."