So ... hone their sights on crunching the communiques of the Average Joe and Osama will be a snap?
Who knew it paid to be on as many chain e-mail lists as possible? The allegation that plans have been hidden inside internet porn has, so far, proven unsupported.
E. Michael Douglass loses again ... porn's clean. =)
Mahfouz, a Bin Laden funder,known to freepers since the days of the attack on the USS Cole last year, owns a little thing called "Worldspace"
It is a satellite!
I bet he has another satellite phone that he finds safer. Gee Dad, it's an Iridium!! See below.
He probably has a "back door" into the satellite system, thanks to X42, that lets him use the entire system at will and not be tracked. And it turns out that one of the biggest customers for Iridium phones is also the US Government. Is that how our 'codes' were stolen by terrorists?
Search WorldNetDaily for IRIDIUM and read the articles involving Loral Space, and how "X42" and Bernard Schwartz (Chair of Loral Space) and others made it easy for Red China to conveniently "not recover" encryption modules from crashed payloads on launches X42 permitted to be conducted by Red China.
Hopefully something will just "happen" to the Iridium satellites and the back door will no longer be of use.
Does this situation, thanks to the self-serving controlled by communists previous president, ever seem like a bad James Bond movie?
SNIPPET:
From http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?24519
Monday, September 17, 2001
DAY OF INFAMY 2001
Do bin Ladens benefit financially from attack?
Iridium phones suddenly in high demand for rescue efforts
By Joseph Farah
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com--> © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
With normal communications methods crippled since the attack on the World Trade Center, a previously under-achieving satellite-based phone system linked with Osama bin Laden's family is, ironically, experiencing a boom in business.
Iridium telephones are suddenly in high demand, particularly in rescue efforts in New York and Washington.
While Iridium is a $5 billion business, the satellite phone system is a technological achievement that has, until now, been regarded as something of a joke in the telecommunications industry due to lack of consumer interest.
Little known, however, is the fact that bin Laden's brother, at least once, served as a director of the U.S. telecommunications company backed by Motorola.
As late as three years ago, Hasan bin Laden served as a director of the Iridium Middle East Corp. subsidiary, reported the New York Daily News. The Saudi bin Laden Group, the family's investment arm, has also reportedly invested in the global phone link firm.
A spokesman for the company denied, at that time, that the bin Laden Group and Hasan bin Laden had any financial or professional connection with Osama bin Laden, who even then was wanted on terrorism charges. The bin Laden family has claimed to have severed all ties with Osama after his role in masterminding the U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa in 1998.
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Iridium's ability to bypass cell-phone towers and land-based telephone lines came in handy after terrorists rammed planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Cellular phone service in lower Manhattan failed when the towers that transmit signals came crashing down along with the World Trade Center buildings. Land lines proved useless after authorities shut off utilities to the area. In Washington, cell-phone circuits were simply overloaded with panicked residents' calls.
Iridium works through a system of 66 satellites circling 485 miles above the Earth.
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If the bin Laden family is, indeed, still involved in Iridium, a company that was recently reorganized after its unsuccessful debut on the telecommunications scene, it would not be the first time the bin Laden family has materially benefited directly from "black sheep" Osama bin Laden's acts of terrorism.
OBL's assistant, "WOW, look at those tits!!"
OBL, [SCOWL]
OBL's assistant, "Oh, sorry boss. Here's the latest encrypted message."
LOL
Every single story like this seems to include mention of some stupid thing that the US could have done but didn't do or stopped doing sometime between 1993 and 2000. You would think that someone might eventually recognize the significance of those dates.