Friday, July 24, 2015

ISIS reportedly using Information Leaked by Edward Snowden to evade Intelligence Authorities

Despite a concerted effort by a coalition of dozens of countries to cripple the Islamic State terror group, the militants continue to operate beneath a shroud of secrecy and maintain a hold on key territory in Iraq and Syria.
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The terror group is still entrenched in Raqqa, Syria, the group's de-facto capital. And in May they seized Ramadi, a key Sunni city in Iraq. The Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) has been dented by coalition air strikes, but it's still far from being wiped off the map.
Part of this hinges on ISIS leadership's ability to evade the forces that are trying to defeat the group. As the German weekly Der Spiegel reported earlier this year, many top ISIS leaders come from former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath party. These officials bring military and intelligence experience with them.
And they might be aided by something else, as well — The New York Times reported this week that ISIS has "studied revelations from Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, about how the United States gathers information on militants."
Snowden is currently living in Russia to avoid US espionage charges. He leaked more than a million classified government documents in 2013.
ISIS has reportedly used some of this information to inform its operations, as the group's communications rely on couriers and encrypted channels that Western analysts can't crack, according to anonymous officials who spoke with the Times. It's unclear which specific reports ISIS might have studied.
Other terror groups, including al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, have also frustrated US intelligence analysts in the past with similar techniques like couriers and encryption.
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

ISIS gets all the info they want or need from Muhammad Obama