Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:26:55 -0500 From: Tim O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Tracing cellphones To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/international/europe/04PHON.html?hp>
How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and DESMOND BUTLER
Published: March 4, 2004
ONDON, March 2 -- The terrorism investigation code-named Mont Blanc began almost by accident in April 2002, when authorities intercepted a cellphone call that lasted less than a minute and involved not a single word of conversation.
Investigators, suspicious that the call was a signal between terrorists, followed the trail first to one terror suspect, then to others, and eventually to terror cells on three continents.
What tied them together was a computer chip smaller than a fingernail. But before the investigation wound down in recent weeks, its global net caught dozens of suspected Qaeda members and disrupted at least three planned attacks in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, according to counterterrorism and intelligence officials in Europe and the United States. ...
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