[kcvl]

Western intelligence officials say they have learned that instructors at Osama bin Laden's camps in remote Afghanistan train his followers in the high-tech secret-messaging technique.

And French investigators believe that suspects arrested in an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris were to get the go-ahead for the attack via a message hidden in a picture posted on the Internet, former French defense official Alexis Debat told ABCNEWS.

One of the men in custody, described by French officials as a computer nerd well-versed in the messaging technique, was captured with a notebook full of secret codes. "This code book is major breakthrough in the investigation," said Debat.

[LayoutGuru2]

The was a lot of talk right after 911 about the use of steganography by the terrorists. I haven't heard much about it since then. Here is a pre-911 warning:

Bin Laden: Steganography Master?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41658,00.html

[Cindy]

re post no. 19...

LINKS OF INTEREST:

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "STUDY: NEW 9/11-STYLE ATTACK LIKELY" ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON - Another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack is "highly likely" in the United States, which ranks fourth in an index assessing the risk to 186 countries, a research company said Sunday.") (August 17, 2003) (Read More...)

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: "ATTACK ON AMERICA!" (Updated) (Read More...)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a REUTERS article: "CANADA ARRESTS 19 IN CASE WITH SEPT. 11TH PARALLELS" (August 22, 2003) (Read More...)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a CanWest News Service Article by Brian Krebs and Joseph Menn, with files from Jason Fekete: 'SOBIG' VIRUS TRACED TO CANADIAN COMPUTER" (August 23, 2003) (Read More...)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding an ABCnews.go.com article by Alexandra Salomon: "Terrorists' Twin Tower Images, Secret Porn Messages" (May 8, 2003) (Read More...)

FBI.gov - War On Terrorism: "SEEKING INFORMATION"

FBI.gov: "MOST WANTED TERRORISTS"