June 29, 2005
Did the US/Britain sever Pakistan's Internet connection?
According to CNN, Pakistan's connection to the Internet went down yesterday. Via Powerline, we have this story from the Miror
SAS troops were last night poised to storm into Afghanistan and capture Osama bin Laden.Special forces have "good intelligence" the al-Qaeda boss or a senior henchman is holed up in a Taliban enclave.
Two squadrons are on stand-by waiting for the go-ahead from reconnaissance troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
Specialist counter-terrorist soldiers in the rapid-deployment group are on high alert at the SAS's Hereford base.
Now, I don't know if OBL will be captured, but if the SAS or US troops are about to do a major sweep of Al Queada, it would be helpful to disrupt their communications to the world for the duration of the sweep.
Note: There was a a lot of consipiracy mongering on slashdot about the US wanting to listen in on the traffic. I think it is more likely to be an active C3I disruption.
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