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Donkey Subscriber Line
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In a bid to quash a popular rebellion, the Syrian government has shut down pretty much all electronic communications inside the country and to overseas. Cut off from the internet, protestors, journalists, and human rights activists have resorted to communications networks from another era.

To get the news out, activists have been smuggling videos to Jordan through the desert and across a nearly 80-kilometer border Jordan shares with Syria. Desperate Syrians have been using a helping hand from smugglers to cross the border, either by walking or on the backs of donkeys.

Some risk approaching the border with Jordanian cellphones to report to the outside world and send clips. It is a dangerous task because the Syrian and Jordanian armies traditionally have the area under heavy surveillance to prevent the smuggling of drugs and weapons into the kingdom or further.


http://www.dbune.com/news/world/6097-donkeys-take-over-from-dsl-as-syria-shuts-down-internet.html
Filed under: Censorship Communications DSL Information Internet Mobile Revolution Syria
 

"Issues With Various Countries"
TO: Doug Feith
FROM: Donald Rumsfeld
SUBJECT: Issues w/Various Countries

We need more coercive diplomacy with respect to Syria and Libya, and we need it fast. If they mess up Iraq, it will delay bringing our troops home.

We also need to solve the Pakistan problem.

And Korea doesn't seem to be going well.

Are you coming up with proposals for me to send around?

Thanks.


http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/what-its-like-to-work-for-donald-rumsfeld/71521/
Filed under: Diplomacy Empire Imperialism Iraq Libya North Korea Pakistan Rumsfeld Syria USA
 

"Je m'appelle Bond. Jacques Bond."
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The French military attaché in Damascus simply took it upon himself to drive out to the reactor on his own and take pictures. The attaché, whose name could not be learned, drove out to the desert site, near the village of At Tibnah, trailing a virtual caravan of Syrian "minders," domestic security agents assigned to follow him around. When he pulled up to the reactor site, the attaché jerked his thumb over his shoulder and told the bewildered guards, "They're with me."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/04/the_french_spy_the_cia_and_the.html
Filed under: CIA France Intelligence James Bond Spy Syria
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