Saddam's email hacked (My title)

Wired News ^ | October 28, 2002 | Brian McWilliams

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On the afternoon of July 17, a self-proclaimed expert in biochemistry composed an e-mail message to Saddam Hussein. The message, sent from an MSN Hotmail account on a computer in China, recommended the use of methyl bromide, an agricultural pesticide, as an effective chemical weapon against the U.S. Army.

"For weapon use, have function: no color, no smell, will let person dead in a few second," wrote the e-mail's author, who provided the phone number and address of a distributor in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from which the toxic chemical could be purchased "in cylinder or in can."

The chilling electronic missive was among hundreds evidently sent to Iraq's president last summer from people around the world.

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I'd be intererested in the "from" line on the various emails.

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Meanwhile, an Internet user from Washington state, who conceded that he would "probably end up on some FBI watch list for writing this," told Saddam in an e-mail dated Aug. 1 that he opposed military action against Iraq.
The author of the message advised Saddam to be diligent "with regards to your own personal security. The CIA is notoriously crafty and extremely adept at overthrowing governments and their respective leaders."

The enemy among us.

[Thinkin' Gal]

The e-mails sent to press@uruklink.net were obtained earlier this month by first clicking on a link labeled "Check your e-mail in Uruk" on the homepage of Iraq's state-controlled ISP, Uruklink.net, then guessing the login name and password -- both of which were the same five-letter word.

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More like....

[Thinkin' Gal]

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Should be obvious what's up here. They create a mailbox with a short ID and password that match, then conveniently leave some messages that could be embarassing to the US. Can you spell "disinformation"?

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Interesting angle. Didn't think of that one, but you might be on to something.