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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (11782)	12/14/2001 10:52:34 AM
From: hdl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Durrani said bin Laden would never express happiness over the killing of innocent people. but, there is a fatwa that they aren't innocent and bin laden has said all americans are valid targets as they all aid the war and u.s. is weak and abhors death. he reasons-if a couple have a shoulder or knee injured, it is big news in u.s. eventually, u.s. will fold and get out of saudi arabia- especially since it won't just take the oil as compensation for its troubles.

To: lorne who wrote (11782)	12/14/2001 12:51:47 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Amdocs Excerpt... [ CAMERON: Here's how the system works. Most directory assistance calls, and virtually all call records and billing in the U.S. are done for the phone companies by Amdocs Ltd., an Israeli-based private telecommunications company. Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America, and more worldwide. The White House and other secure government phone lines are protected, but it is virtually impossible to make a call on normal phones without generating an Amdocs record of it. In recent years, the FBI and other government agencies have investigated Amdocs more than once. The firm has repeatedly and adamantly denied any security breaches or wrongdoing. But sources tell Fox News that in 1999, the super secret national security agency, headquartered in northern Maryland, issued what's called a Top Secret sensitive compartmentalized information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of calls in the United States were getting into foreign hands – in Israel, in particular. Investigators don't believe calls are being listened to, but the data about who is calling whom and when is plenty valuable in itself. An internal Amdocs memo to senior company executives suggests just how Amdocs generated call records could be used. “Widespread data mining techniques and algorithms.... combining both the properties of the customer (e.g., credit rating) and properties of the specific ‘behavior….’” Specific behavior, such as who the customers are calling. ] Full article at... foxnews.com