At 10:36 PM 8/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:

To be real clever, he did not approach the website

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with the car adds directly. Police found out the add was approached trough a US anonymizer called SURFOLA.com. SURFOLA.com claims on their website : "We will not give out your name, residence address, or e-mail address to any third parties without your permission, for any reason, at any time, ever."

The Utrecht police informed the FBI, and asked for assistance. Within 24 hours, the FBI cracked the case, supplying the Dutch police with a '@wxs.nl' e-mail address and some paypal.com financial data. This data led to the 45 year old chip programmer. After his identity was known, the police ofcourse started surveillance on him. The 'desert terrorist' was arrested red-handed when he withdrew money from an ATM using the world-card copy....

He should have used a open WiFi hotspot at someone's home in a neighborhood far from his home. steve