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2005-08-01 Arabia

Al Qaeda Link to Attacks in London Probed

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Posted by Fred 2005-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's make the presumption that AQ was spearheading the operation, and work from there.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-01 00:56|| 2005-08-01 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it's AQ misdirection to lead us to believe that is is a copy cat or an indirect AQ franchise operation. That AQ is behind directly this seems to me to be a given. AQ needs to have something big happen outside the middle east or Afghanistan. Support for them is flagging where it counts, the guys with the money. Their operations are being rolled up all over the place and the money men have to be getting nervous that someone will find them out. The intention was that this was going to be a big deal, bigger than Madrid to put the money men at ease. London and the UK got lucky. The financial backers need to feel nervous.

Please feel free to poke holes in my assumptions.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-01 06:43|| 2005-08-01 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 These leads seem to be based mostly on reading the data stored inside captured prepaid cell phones, not on intercepted communications.

The bad guys do know that we intercept phone conversations, which is why they use prepaid cell phones. The bad guys apparently haven't figured out, though, how to erase the data on the phones.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-08-01 07:31|| 2005-08-01 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 They have been sloppy in a number of ways that seem far too obvious. Then again, boomers tend not to be the most intelligent and logical of the litter.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-01 09:31|| 2005-08-01 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Not quite, Mike -- the Rome arrest was enabled by calls made in transit.

Posted by Neutron Tom 2005-08-01 09:39|| 2005-08-01 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Mike, you are confusing several things. Telecos keep records of who calls who for billing purposes. A phone is only anonymouse until you have physical possesion of it, of course then its not (all phones have SIM cards). In addition phone calls may be intercepted and analyzed for content, but that is something separate.

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-01 09:48|| 2005-08-01 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 I think maybe Lord Mike Mike is right on this one. You gotta figure even a hard fighting muzzie man has figured that calls are intercepted.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-01 13:53|| 2005-08-01 13:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Re #5 (Neutron Tom): the Rome arrest was enabled by calls made in transit.

That's not what the article is about.

The article is about phone calls between leaders of the al Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia and unknown people in Britain from February to May.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-08-01 23:37|| 2005-08-01 23:37|| Front Page Top

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