[osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet

alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Jun 14 15:47:03 PDT 2004


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 at shipwright.com>
> >To: Thomas Shaddack <shaddack at ns.arachne.cz>
> >CC: cypherpunks at 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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