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Media Tips Off Al Qaeda

Mike

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Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip
Enemy Vanishes From Its Web Sites

By ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
October 9, 2007


WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda's Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden's September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy's system.

The intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden's first appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech.

But the disclosure from ABC and later other news organizations tipped off Qaeda's internal security division that the organization's Internet communications system, known among American intelligence analysts as Obelisk, was compromised. This network of Web sites serves not only as the distribution system for the videos produced by Al Qaeda's production company, As-Sahab, but also as the equivalent of a corporate intranet, dealing with such mundane matters as expense reporting and clerical memos to mid- and lower-level Qaeda operatives throughout the world.
 

kolanuraven

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Ahh....you forget one important part.

The people who discovered the ' cracks' in the Al Queda deal told THE WHITE HOUSE first.

The leak came from there to the media then out to the world!!!
 

Mike

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kolanuraven said:
Ahh....you forget one important part.

The people who discovered the ' cracks' in the Al Queda deal told THE WHITE HOUSE first.

The leak came from there to the media then out to the world!!!

Not exactly. The Whitehouse denies it. :lol:

Asked by reporters if the White House was the source of the leak, spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "We were not."

"The White House is very concerned to learn about it," Perino said, adding that any time a "citizen comes forward to provide information, we want to encourage that type of communication, know their sources will be protected.

"When we receive information from an individual or a company we refer it to the intelligence community and that's what happened here."

She referred further questions to the Director of National Intelligence.
 

kolanuraven

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Mike said:
kolanuraven said:
Ahh....you forget one important part.

The people who discovered the ' cracks' in the Al Queda deal told THE WHITE HOUSE first.

The leak came from there to the media then out to the world!

Not exactly. The Whitehouse denies it. :lol:

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Well......!!! DUH!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

jigs

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I once heard the terrorists were embedding messages in porn sites, so I have spent a lot of time trying to do my part and help the USA by looking into these sites.....

so far no big plot has been discovered, but it is not hindering my search.
 

Sandhusker

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jigs said:
I once heard the terrorists were embedding messages in porn sites, so I have spent a lot of time trying to do my part and help the USA by looking into these sites.....

so far no big plot has been discovered, but it is not hindering my search.

Jigs, you are indeed a great American Patriot. The sacrifices you are making for all of us are an inspiration. God bless you.
 
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Anonymous

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"White House denies leaking info that hurt Al-Qaeda spying"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071009/pl_afp/usattacksintelligenceleak

"The SITE Intelligence Group said it lost access that it had covertly acquired to Al-Qaeda's communications network when the administration of President George W. Bush let out that the company had obtained a bin Laden video early last month ahead of its official release, the Washington Post said.

"Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless," SITE founder Rita Katz told the newspaper."

What a shock! The White House spokesperson caught again.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/08/AR2007100801817.html?hpid=topnews

"A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.

Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide."
 
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Anonymous

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Asked by reporters if the White House was the source of the leak, spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "We were not."


Just like neither Libby or Miss Piggy (Rove) were leaks :roll: :wink: :lol:

My question for the last couple years has been-- why do you have as your top White House advisor someone who's only government experience and expertise is as a "political race hatchetman" (Rove)-- when you don't have any office you can no longer run for..... :???:
 
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Anonymous

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Asked by reporters if the White House was the source of the leak, spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "We were not."


Just like neither Libby or "Miss Piggy" (or as GW called him "Turd Blossom") (Rove) were leaks :roll: :wink: :lol:

My question for the last couple years has been-- why do you have as your top White House advisor someone who's only government experience and expertise is as a "political race hatchetman" (Rove)-- when you don't have any office you can no longer run for..... :???:
 
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