On 12/25/05, A. M. Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A great deal of US monitoring trafficking has moved "offshore". Again, it 
> would
> not surprise me if a substantial volume of this has moved to India, under the

I would be extremely surprised if it had. Despite the recent US-Indian
bonhomie, India is still not a reliable enough ally for something like
this.

I am sure, though, that there are other locations where this can
happen. For example, where I live, the United Arab Emirates, the US
Embassy is a *huge* (and *ugly*) building. The UAE is a small country,
with a population of about 4 million, so such a large facility is
undoubtedly not for just processing visa applications and pushing US
trade interests.

And why go so far anyway? The oldest eavesdropping and analysis outfit
in the world - GCHQ  Cheltenham - is at the US's disposal.

Ram

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