Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Dang foreign phones

Is the CIA the most incompetent intelligence agency in the world?

According to the article linked in the title of this post, the 19 CIA agents that a grandstanding Italian judge wants to extradite to Italy in connection with an investigation of the alleged kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar -- a terrorist cleric -- were traced in large part by their cellphone usage.

That's some pretty poor tradecraft by the US agents. Might as well wear the big button with the word SPY on it like in the Paddington Bear children's story.

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