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To: long-gone who wrote (76733)	9/17/2001 9:06:24 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116818

Once the mission was set, the cells did not have to communicate. In fact they could not intercommunicate at all. If they did have to talk to command they could do so on a training mission by personal contact over long period of time. All co-ordination would be worked out in advance and taken to the teams at the last minute. Eavesdropping by the Feds would not have stopped them. They no more had to intercommunicate than resistance cells in WWII had to. They were not organizing a terrorist network, they were one. This was a low tech long term hijack. It was at the most 50 people led by one or two man command structure. It was self supporting and low cost. It was easily within the means of a few people in a radical splinter cell or a sub group of any of the terrorist orgs. What you posted was administration propaganda to get Clinton type restrictions on US free citizen encryption which they desperately need to protect their credit cards and personal transactions over the net, from business espionage and crime. If free citizens are not secure from their government then they are sitting ducks to infiltration of the government and criminal enterprise. We should resist further encroachments on our freedom and this is not what prevents terrorism but generates it. All this blarney about military grade stuff sold to Syria is blarney. They can buy Russian, Chinese stuff or build their own. That is why they send engineers to school in the States and Canada. We could have prevented this and the Chinese military buildup by simply dropping foreign student education. After all it is for our children not theirs. We are crippling our generation if we let others beat them to an education that is primarily designed to allow them to drop bombs on us. What we are doing is something akin to a Nazi-US foreign exchange program with the naive belief that it will lead to brainwashing the foreigners to the American way. All too often it educates violent anti-american dictators. What the administration is doing is setting the stage for more wiretapping and limiting the availability of encryption. No, doubt like Mafiaboy in Montreal there will be some Americans hung out to dry for trying to exercise some freedoms or innocently testing the limits of networks. Mafiaboy was I admit an annoyance but I doubt that he deserved 8 months in jail. What they will try will be an excercise in annoyance and inconvenience for the US citizens, further limiting the usefulness of the net. The enemy will by annoyed very little and hampered in their activities only slightly. Us, a lot. We are already one of the worst police states in the world. We don't need to make it any worse. They may be more stringent in other locales, but their ability to interfere is far less. EC<:-}