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06 November 2006
Indian Intelligence To Use 'Internet Tapping' To Trace Maoists, ISI Activities
Unattributed report: "Police to Sniff Out Maoists on Internet"
The Asian Age (Internet Version-WWW)
Thursday, October 26, 2006 T09:44:28Z
Journal Code: 798 Language: ENGLISH Record Type: FULLTEXT
Document Type: OSC Transcribed Text:
Hyderabad, Oct. 25: Intelligence sleuths are planning to use sniffer software to trace the activities of Maoists, their sympathisers and ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) agents on the Internet.
The sleuths have decided to go snooping in the Internet after realising that Maoists and their fellow travellers have turned cyber-savvy and were using emails and chat to transmit key messages.
The police had also come across several instances of ISI suspects using cyber cafes to communicate with their bosses in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Dubai and Saudi Arabia.
Intelligence agencies have now decided to scan Internet traffic at the local gateways of service providers to sniff out the cyber communication of extremists.
A committee of cyber forensic experts has been set up to filter emails, coded messages, chat and other communication. The sniffer software will also help intelligence agencies track extremists and their operatives in the city.
Special Intelligence Branch (that deals Maoists) is in fact the first state police agency to go for sniffer software after the Central Intelligence Bureau.
"We will be able to record everything without being detected," said a senior intelligence official. "It is just like phone tapping. We can call it Internet tapping."
Director-general of police Swaranjit Sen, however, denied that police had plans to get sniffer software. "Right now there is no such move," he said.
The software is used by major companies who want to prevent their employees from mailing secret data to rival business companies. Intelligence agencies have learned that Maoist top guns are using laptops and Internet for communication from their hideouts too. The police seized several such laptops recently.
The ministry of information and broadcasting also ordered the closure of a pro-Maoist website
http://www.peoplesmarch.com/ www.peoplesmarch.com in May 2006 following a report by intelligence agencies. However, it surfaced again in Google pages as
http://peoplesmarch.googlepages.com/
http://peoplesmarch.googlepages.com/. Mr P. Govindan Kutty, editor of the website, told this correspondent from Kochi in Kerala that the site was not a Maoist venture though it supported the Maoist movement.
"Ours is a registered newspaper and we are legally right," he said. "I was paying an IT company in Kochi to get 50 MB space. But the website was blocked after I&B (Information and Broadcasting Ministry) wrote a letter stating that it was hosting anti-national content. But I started it again in Google pages free of cost."
The website has interviews of top Maoist leaders wanted by the police and write-ups supporting guerrilla warfare.
"I have so many contributors who write anonymously," said Mr Kutty. "I can't reveal the names as police will catch them. There are professors and lecturers from AP who contribute. We are not anti-national. Our orientation is international."
Police sources said that Maoists and jihadi organisations were also maintaining many blogs. "We will write to Google asking them to stop hosting such web pages," said a police officer.
The issue had recently come up in Parliament too with the minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal stating in the Rajya Sabha that the Centre had powers to ask Internet service providers to block websites of extremists.
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"1 Dead In Comic Store Shootout"
NBC5 ^ | 4 November 2006 | unknown
Posted on 11/06/2006 2:51:14 PM PST by Lurker
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ROSELLE, Ill. -- A shooting inside a DuPage County comic book store has left the owner of the store injured and an alleged intruder dead.
In a news conference Friday, police said the intruder may have been looking for collectable coins.
Police described the incident as a real shoot out, as the two men emptied their weapons into each other.
Both men are in their 40s.
The owner of the store was taken to Alexian Brothers Hospital with a gunshot wound to his arm.
The alleged robber, who is reportedly from Hanover Park, was pronouned dead.
More details from WBBM:
Roselle Shopkeeper Kills Robber In Gunfight
Bob Roberts Reporting
ROSELLE, Ill. (WBBM) -- A 40-year-old parolee from St. Louis was shot dead during a gunfight with the owner of a Roselle collectibles store, who was wounded.
WBBM's Bob Roberts reports.
A digital surveillance video caught the shootout that occurred inside the Westlake Cards, Comics and Coins store, at 1234 W. Lake St., in Roselle. After reviewing the video, DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett declined to press charges against the 49-year-old shopkeeper, a resident of Hanover Park, in the death of ex-convict Geoffrey Webb.
“The question is whether or not this store owner had the right to protect himself and to have a weapon,” Birkett said. “He does. He has a (Firearm Owners Identification) card. He's got that right under Illinois law.”
Roselle Police Chief James Kruger said the surveillance video shows Webb entering the store just before 10:30 a.m. Friday, placing a black bag on the horseshoe-shaped counter and speaking for several minutes with the shopkeeper, whom authorities refused to identify.
Kruger said Webb suddenly pulled a gun from the bag, in which duct tape and handcuffs were later found, and vaulted the counter.
“There was clearly an imminent threat to the store owner's life, and clearly the intruder was in the commission of a forcible felony,” Birkett said.
The shopkeeper told police he had been robbed when the store was located in Glendale Heights, and since then has kept a handgun on his desk in the event of robbery. He was standing next to the desk when Webb vaulted over the display cases.
Kruger said the video appeared to show Webb firing first, wounding the shopkeeper through an arm with one of his shots. The shopkeeper wounded Webb several times, including the apparently fatal bullet to the head."