Reply With QuoteInteresting article. Hard to imagine this guy was a huge boogeyman back in the 1980s.
Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network
Wired Magazine Article:
Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/ff_libya/
Interesting article. Hard to imagine this guy was a huge boogeyman back in the 1980s.
Long list of sh!t associated with him as The Boss:Originally Posted by G-AWZT
Border Conflict with Egypt(Libya Loss)
Support for Idi Amin's insanity including cash/gear/troops for it's war against Tanzania(Libya Loss)
Invaded Chad a few times and got his @ss kicked by a few guys in Toyotas and France(Libya Loss X2)
Murdered LEO Yvonne Fletcher from Libyan Embassy
Provided financial/military/logistical support and harbor to numerous terror groups for decades.
Direct and indirect support for the wave of terror attacks in Europe in the 1980s.
Direct and indirect support for IRA paramilitary attacks throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
Created the Islamic Legion....to unify North Africa under his rule...some of those muppets are responsible for genocide in Sudan to this day.
Pan Am Flight 103
UTA Flight 772
His Malian mercenary corps is now causing havoc and is a contributing factor to the coup and chaos there.
He even invited a bunch of Kiwi sh!tstirrers to Libya to get them all fired up for revolution.....he was such a sh!tstirrer he invited Kiwis from about the farthest most remote country from Libya to his sh!tstirring seminars.
That dude was lucky to get shot in a culvert........He built such a huge bank account of bad karma world wide that I was half expecting him to wind up in a wood chipper in HD on LiveLeak.
Flagg this is true...I truly expected him to be hung, or imprisoned and stand trial at the Hague for his acts. I really wonder if he had VD as Al Capone and it had gotten to his brain, thus the bizarre behaviour. Remember his female "body guards" who traveled with him, and his living in tents even when a palace was 100 feet away, and the crazy uniforms?
My fave part was then, at the time of the Federation of Arab Republics, he issued orders to an Egyptian submarine to sink a British liner.
He was a horrifically bad Bond villian.....a bit like out of the Venture Brothers mold......fortunately most of the stuff under his tenure was a complete and total failure.
What I'm interested in learning is whether the surveillance systems and support from western companies used to repress the population thru control of mobile and internet communications will some day be viewed as "weapons of repression".
I'd be more worried about living under a regime that just bought a turn key mobile phone and internet surveillance system to repress the chance of a local "Arab Spring" than I would be the same regime buying a cr@p ton of small arms or other weapon systems that are often more closely controlled in international trade.
I wonder if commercially available surveillance technology has any export/trade restrictions placed on it and it so, does it require government approval for sale to certain dodgy countries?
The article is very interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
Qaddafi was a "monster" and the last important terrorist of the Cold War era still alive, after the disappearance of Hafez el-Assad, Saddam and Arafat.
The story that the article tells is surelly representative of what's going on in other oppressive regimes. Obama initiated few months ago sanctions on US' and foreigner commpagnies that export technologies of surveillance of communications to Iran, Syria and NK. This is the only existing restriction I'm aware of.
a "electronic army" ochestating harrasment and publishing pro gadaffi propaganda.....next time you see users here supporting guys like assad and company,now you know where they came from
This article helped me make a lot of sense of the Libyan situation, at least what I had seen online. Go to Youtube and you will see thousands of pro-revolution videos with various downvotes and comments critical of the revolution. Also, after the revolution started, hundreds of pro-Gaddafi videos started popping up. Most of these comments, at least the critical/negative one I'm now thinking were most likely posted by this Electronic Army.
Thanks for the post, great article.
Not so sure about Flight 103 - I believe the blame belongs on Iran's doorstep.
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