{"id":187605,"date":"2011-05-02T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/02\/your-bin-laden-update\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T02:55:00","slug":"your-bin-laden-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/02\/your-bin-laden-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Your bin Laden Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting bit is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/may\/02\/how-osama-bin-laden-found\">the dog that did not bark<\/a>, one of the red flags that tipped off the CIA was the fact that a rather expensive, on the order of $1 million, but there were no phone lines or internet connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>After the <i><strike>Moonie<\/strike> Washington Times<\/i> revealed that we were monitoring his satellite phone in the 1990s, we went old school on his communications, using only couriers, and so, when he set up his homestead a mile from the Pakistani military academy (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?) he was having none of telecommunications thing, and that lack marked him.<\/p>\n<p>On the truly weird side, it turns out that the raid was life tweeted by someone (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ReallyVirtual\" title=\"\">@ReallyVirtual<\/a>) who was unaware of the raid, and was just complaining about the helicopters late at night.<\/p>\n<p>There is a bigger picture, but that&#8217;s the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting bit is the dog that did not bark, one of the red flags that tipped off the CIA was the fact that a rather expensive, on the order of $1 million, but there were no phone lines or internet connectivity. After the Moonie Washington Times revealed that we were monitoring his satellite &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,1076,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-terrorism","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}