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02/06/2001 - Updated 11:52 AM ET
Terror groups hide behind Web encryption
By Jack Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Hidden in the X-rated
pictures on several pornographic Web sites and
the posted comments on sports chat rooms may
lie the encrypted blueprints of the next terrorist
attack against the United States or its allies. It
sounds farfetched, but U.S. officials and experts
say it's the latest method of communication
being used by Osama bin Laden and his
associates to outfox law enforcement. Bin
Laden, indicted in the bombing in 1998 of two
U.S. embassies in East Africa, and others are
hiding maps and photographs of terrorist targets
and posting instructions for terrorist activities on
sports chat rooms, pornographic bulletin boards
and other Web sites, U.S. and foreign officials
say.
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02/06/2001 - Updated 11:52 AM ET
Terror groups hide behind Web encryption
By Jack Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Hidden in the X-rated
pictures on several pornographic Web sites and
the posted comments on sports chat rooms may
lie the encrypted blueprints of the next terrorist
attack against the United States or its allies. It
sounds farfetched, but U.S. officials and experts
say it's the latest method of communication
being used by Osama bin Laden and his
associates to outfox law enforcement. Bin
Laden, indicted in the bombing in 1998 of two
U.S. embassies in East Africa, and others are
hiding maps and photographs of terrorist targets
and posting instructions for terrorist activities on
sports chat rooms, pornographic bulletin boards
and other Web sites, U.S. and foreign officials
say.
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