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2009-09-21 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 The last phrase of the Los Angeles Times reports:

U.S. spy agencies have already stepped up their scrutiny of corruption in Kabul. The recent Senate report described a wiretapping system activated last year that is aimed at tracing ties between government officials and drug kingpins in the country.

Is that real?

Posted by Willy 2009-09-21 13:50|| 2009-09-21 13:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Wiretapping? Kind of difficult when everyone uses cell phones. Perhaps they meant electronic eavesdropping, and I hope we've been doing that from the beginning, Willy, just to know what we're ignoring.

Separately, it just occurred to me (clearly a slow thought day) that making the bad guys even more paranoid is not a bad thing, since they're already scanning the sky for Predators. Perhaps Mossad could share how they called all of Hizb'allah's cell phones at once...

Posted by trailing wife 2009-09-21 18:01|| 2009-09-21 18:01|| Front Page Top

#3 This would seem to make sense, to me.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-09-21 22:31|| 2009-09-21 22:31|| Front Page Top

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