Re: [osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet
Remember too that terrorism is really a form of PR, rather than (in most cases) an actual destruction of infrastructure or whatnot. Smart terrorists will obviously leverage any channel available to cause a population to view their world as unstable. Also remember too that plans such as this may be "fishing"...in other words, communications in the hope that somebody out there (not directly known to the issuer of the communique) will take the info and work out his own plans for attacking the target. I'm sure our boys at the School of the Americas (or whatever it's called now) use these mthods all the time. In fact, they're probably the ones who taught the Mujahadin (and bin Laden) a lot of these techniques. -TD
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: Thomas Shaddack <shaddack@ns.arachne.cz> CC: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: [osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:05:53 -0400
At 10:45 PM +0200 6/14/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
It may be also a very cheap method of "attack".
True enough.
Cheers, RAH
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
Remember too that terrorism is really a form of PR, rather than (in most cases) an actual destruction of infrastructure or whatnot. Smart terrorists will obviously leverage any channel available to cause a population to view their world as unstable.
Also remember too that plans such as this may be "fishing"...in other words, communications in the hope that somebody out there (not directly known to the issuer of the communique) will take the info and work out his own plans for attacking the target.
I'm sure our boys at the School of the Americas (or whatever it's called now) use these mthods all the time. In fact, they're probably the ones who taught the Mujahadin (and bin Laden) a lot of these techniques.
Also don't forget that by telling people where you "plan" to attack, you get them to spend a bunch of money that they would not have already spent. Give them enough "targets" and they will be chasing shadows all over the place. When they have done this enough, the oposition will not know what to believe. A mind-fuck is a terrible thing to waste.
-TD
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: Thomas Shaddack <shaddack@ns.arachne.cz> CC: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: [osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:05:53 -0400
At 10:45 PM +0200 6/14/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
It may be also a very cheap method of "attack".
True enough.
Cheers, RAH
-- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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