Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4504-1014087607-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10850 invoked by uid 510); 19 Feb 2002 03:07:31 -0000 Received: from n27.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.77) by all.net with SMTP; 19 Feb 2002 03:07:31 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4504-1014087607-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.164] by n27.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Feb 2002 03:00:07 -0000 X-Sender: fastflyer28@yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_2); 19 Feb 2002 03:00:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 43558 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2002 02:59:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 Feb 2002 02:59:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web14501.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.224.64) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 2002 02:59:55 -0000 Message-ID: <20020219025955.77373.qmail@web14501.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.33.43.194] by web14501.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:59:55 PST To: iwar@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <200202181536.g1IFan712983@red.all.net> From: "e.r." <fastflyer28@yahoo.com> X-Yahoo-Profile: fastflyer28 Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:59:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Phone.Bills.Help.US.Map.Al-Qaeda] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Looks like UBL and al-Qaeda like to keep in touch. The Problem is they are careful with OPSEC and I doubt they will get caught doing the same thing in the same manner twice. --- Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> wrote: > Phone Bills Help US Map Al-Qaeda > World, February 18, 2002 [ 08:41 ] > , Times of India > > WASHINGTON. US investigators have obtained billing records for a > satellite telephone > used by Osama Bin Laden and his closest associates in the late 1990s > and are using > them to locate terrorist al-Qaeda cells around the world, according > to Newsweek magazine. > > The report in the weekly's Monday issue said the suspected mastermind > of the September > 11 attacks and his top lieutenants, including Ayman al-Zawahiri and > Muhammad Atef, > stayed in touch with the outside world using a Compact-M portable > satellite telephone. > > > US investigators probing the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya and > Tanzania, the > magazine said, obtained billing records from 1996-1998 for the phone. > > And a country-by-country analysis of the bills provided US > authorities with a virtual > road map to important al-Qaeda cells around the world. > > According to the report, the largest number of outgoing calls -- 238 > out of 1,100 > -- went to Britain, particularly to Bin Laden associate Khalid > al-Fawwaz, who has > been in British custody for years awaiting extradition to the United > States. > > The second largest group of outgoing calls was to numbers in Yemen, > Newsweek reported. > > Some calls went to a Yemeni phone number that investigators now > believe was used > as a switchboard by conspirators involved in the embassy bombings in > Africa, the > bombing of the USS Cole and the September 11 attacks. > > Citing US intelligence sources, the magazine reported that the > switchboard number > was registered to Ahmad Mohammad Ali al-Hada, a well-known Bin Laden > associate. > > One of al-Hada's sons-in-law, Khalid Almidhar, was a member of the > team that crashed > an American Airlines plane into the Pentagon. Another son-in-law is > among 13 men > named by the Justice Department this month as members of a terror > team feared to > be plotting an imminent attack against American targets. > > Other countries called from Bin Laden's satellite phone include > Azerbaijan, Pakistan, > Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Egypt. Nearly 10 per cent of the outgoing > calls went to numbers > in Iran, Newsweek reported. > > The report cites a Bush administration official as saying US > intelligence has believed > for years that hard-line factions inside Iran helped al-Qaeda operate > an "underground > railroad" smuggling terrorists to training camps in Afghanistan. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Do you need to encrypt all your online transactions? 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