NATO-MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part II)

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by Libya S.O.S.

Who would have thought that Twitter, a place for so many people to muse about their lunches and rant about their boring lives would actually be used to help triangulate bombing targets in Libya? 
Yes, NATO is now including Tweets as part of its "intelligence picture" in an attempt to locate Gaddafi and his “nefarious forces”.

This grandchild was killed by NATO 20.60.2011.

1 . In March 2011. Media make “great” articles about Serbs who support Gaddafi. “Serbs war over Libya” “Serbian hackers fight for Gaddafi”

More than 50,000 Internet users from Serbia are actively supporting Libyan President Gaddafi through a cyber war with his opponents, a Libyan opposition group called the Libyan Youth Movement (LYM) says. (read more)

Support for Muammar al Gaddafi from the people of Serbia   

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 BUT but none of the journalists did not mention facts:

NATO’s use of depleted uranium ammunition in it’s aggression against Serbia (read more)http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/14/nato-poisons-libya-with-depleted-uranium/comment-page-1/

NATO killed 89 children in Serbia and 500 Yugoslav civilians were killed in ninety separate incidents over seventy-eight days of bombing http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/nato/Natbm200.htm#P37_987

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"Twitter and Facebook are among a wide range of media and other sources NATO's "intelligence" officers monitor around-the-clock to identify potential targets in the air war against Kadhafi's troops", the officials said.

It is interestin is to see  http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/ow

Who is user? From where? 

From first day it was strange. We “spoken” only with Libyan Youth Movement from west Europe or from Canada?!? They blocked us (of course).

List of “Libyan Youth Movement”?!?

And*** BATC***** -From Croydon, United Kingdom

D**** HANNINGTON

YAS**** LAB*** - Norwich, Norfolk

STE** DYS*** - Lives in Toksværd, Storstrom, Denmark

SHA*** HOG**** - Lives in Delray Beach, Florida

JOHN H***** - Went to winston churchill

OLI*** D*** -From Bratislava, Slovakia

STIG-ÅKE PER**** - From Halmstad, Sweden, Born on 17 October 1953

IRE** SWIFT

BJØRN HOLST JE******* - From Ny Tolstrup, Roskilde, Denmark

GAR* KE**- Worked at Osmond Lange Architects Studied at Self Taught

AKR** SHER** - Lives in Madrid, Spain

PEDRO ALF****- San Juan, Puerto Rico, Born on 04 July 1948

Karm*** Bian** Lives in Valletta, Malta

San** Sa** From Arlington, Massachusetts
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Libyan Youth Movement

https://www.facebook.com/LibyanYouthMovement

 

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 Libyan Youth Movement - Note to Media: contacts #Yefren & #AlQala are under COMPLETE siege, there's no going in/out of area. ONLY via satphone libyanym@gmail.com

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"We will take information from every source we can," said British Wing Commander Mike Bracken, the Libya operation's military spokesman. "We get information from open sources on the Internet, we get Twitter."

LET SEE...
   Every morning at 7:30 a.m., in the picturesque woodlands of rural Ontario, a retired auto shop manager named Janice Clinch helps her grandson get ready for school and fires up her computer for another day of battle in the Libyan desert.

https://www.facebook.com/LibyanYouthMovement/posts/143012409097917#!/profile.php?id=660611223

   The 59-year-old has never met anybody from Libya. She has not visited the Arab world; chronic pain makes it hard for her to get around. But from her home near Seeley’s Bay, 40 kilometres northeast of Kingston, she joined a committed cadre of social media users who have become, in effect, volunteer intelligence analysts. On Twitter, Facebook and other services, they discuss satellite images, vessel tracking data and the latest gossip from their sources inside the country.

   A Twitter account with apparent links to the British military has even taken the unusual step of asking users to submit the precise co-ordinates of troops loyal to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.

https://twitter.com/#!/JaniceCli

   Ms. Clinch was among the first to respond. Months of online activism earned her a role as administrator of the Libyan Youth Movement page on Facebook – the only non-Libyan honoured with the job, she says – and on Monday she noticed that a regular member, somebody located in western Libya, had pinpointed a gas station converted into a temporary headquarters for Col. Gadhafi’s forces. She tweeted the co-ordinates, along with the longitude and latitude of a few other targets passed along from the same source, asking NATO to “clean up” the government troops.

http://liveword.ca/libya/2011/06/14/8176/

  Ms. Clinch was not sure whether NATO had bombed those locations, but she continued to scour the Internet for more leads.

“I don’t believe in dictatorships,” she said. “It’s inconceivable to me that people could live in these conditions.”

   Twitter is no replacement for the forward air controllers who have guided bombs from the ground since the Second World War. Canadian and U.S. forces now call these specialists Joint Terminal Attack Controllers; some elite foreign troops are rumoured to be among the advisers helping the Libyan rebels, but they apparently do not include JTACs. This leaves an important gap in NATO’s view of the war: for all its sophisticated eyes overhead, the alliance suffers a shortage of real-time intelligence from below.

   This shortcoming is part of the reason why air power has never succeeded in overthrowing a regime, analysts say, a historical record that fuels skepticism about the campaign.

Those precedents may not be entirely valid in the new age of social media, however. In a press briefing on June 10, Wing Commander Mike Bracken, a NATO spokesman, described the so-called “fusion centre” that pulls together intelligence.

“We get information from open sources on the Internet; we get Twitter,” Wing Commander Bracken said. “You name any source of media and our fusion centre will deliver all of that into usable intelligence.”

Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, the Canadian who commands the operation, ultimately decides whether to trust what he’s hearing.

“He will decide, ‘That is good information and I can act on it,’ ” the spokesman said. “Where it comes from, it’s not relevant to the commander.”

   Some online activists have been contacted directly for their input. NATO staffers also appear to have set up unofficial accounts to solicit information; one user selected the name “HMS Nonsuch,” a term sometimes used by the British navy to indicate a hypothetical ship during exercises. That account describes itself as “unofficial, not run by the Royal Navy,” and offered assurances that Twitter is only a method of gathering tips that will be corroborated with other sources. 

http://twitter.com/#!/HMS_Nonsuch

   Robert Rowley, 48, supervisor of a Dairy Queen in Arizona, said he has already seen results from his Twitter activism. He was among the first to notice fuel tankers slipping past NATO warships and docking at ports controlled by Col. Gadhafi, which led to NATO interdictions.

http://twitter.com/#!/RRowleyTucson

 

   He also wonders whether his tweets might be connected to the bombing of a Gadhafi communications centre in Tripoli. Combing through satellite images, he noticed that a property listed as a commercial warehouse had a yard containing what appeared to be military vehicles. He published his observations; 10 hours later, the spot was hit by a NATO air strike.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=172391202824134&id=141754652554456#!/profile.php?id=1516849060

 

“I’m 5,000 miles away,” he said, in an interview before his shift at the ice-cream parlour. “It’s a very weird feeling.” 

http://feb17.info/page/2/

The "sponteneous rebels":
http://feb17.info/
(main page from "rebels")
http://www.whois.net/whois/feb17.info
(domain name created on Feb-14-2011 !!!!)

Update 20.01.2012.
List of tweets sent to and used by NATO to bomb targets in Libya. -  http://storify.com/antireb/list-of-tweets-sent-to-and-used-by-nato-to-bomb-ta
Where are the internet "freedom fighters" ?
http://libyasos.blogspot.gr/2012/01/where-are-internet-freedom-fighters.html

AeliciaJones @ AeIiciaJones libya human rights activist. . What mental disorder does she/he have? Crime on Twitter  -> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/aeliciajones-aeiiciajones-libya-human.html

READ ALSO:

NATO-MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part I) Fake profiles--> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/nato-matrix-or-disneyland.html

NATO-MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part II) Crime on Twitter -- > http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/nato-matrix-or-disneyland-part-ii.html
NATO MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part III) US, Twitter and excellent english ->

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/nato-matrix-or-disneyland-part-iii.html

[source:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/how-social-media-users-are-helping-nato-fight-gadhafi-in-libya/article2060965/]

...to be continued

NATO-MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part I)

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“We get information from open sources on the Internet, we get Twitter,” British Wing Commander Mike Bracken told AFP. Another NATO official attested, “Twitter is a great source." 

Really?!?!

Nato sources said Libyan rebels tweeting from the rebel city of Misurata, as well as Ajdabiya and Tripoli, were providing valuable updates on the movements of troops, military vehicles and civilians.   

Really?!?!

Libya Traffic Divided by Worldwide Traffic

Really!??

These days, with Facebook and Twitter and social media galore, it can be increasingly hard to tell who your "friends" are. 

Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda

by Darlene Storm

It's recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda. It could also be used as surveillance to find public opinions with points of view the powers-that-be didn't like. It could then potentially have their "fake" people run smear campaigns against those "real" people. As disturbing as this is, it's not really new for U.S. intelligence or private intelligence firms to do the dirty work behind closed doors.

   EFF previously warned that Big Brother wants to be your friend for social media surveillance. While the FBI Intelligence Information Report Handbook (PDF) mentioned using "covert accounts" to access protected information, other government agencies endorsed using security exploits to access protected information. 

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Libyan Twitterati send off tweets about Gadhafi’s latest depravities at a frenetic pace. Tweets containing links to uploaded video, like this one — which, fair warning, is graphic — clearly show the roads that Gadhafi’s troops use to travel.

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Really?!? Video?!?

    It's not a big surprise that the U.S. military also wants to use social media to its benefit. The Air Force used the chart below to show how social media influences public opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/user/miusrata17miusrata
Channel Views: 89,718 / Total Upload Views: 1,059,882 / Joined: Feb 26, 2011
note:facebook & twitter t-shirt!

     The 6th Contracting Squadron at MacDill Air Force Base sought the development of Persona Management Software which could be used for creating and managing fake profiles on social media sites to distort the truth and make it appear as if there was a generally accepted agreement on controversial issues. "Personas must be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world and can interact through conventional online services and social media platforms." What happened to don't lie and the Uniform Code of Military Justice?

     Everything revealed after Anonymous leaked emails from private security firm HBGary Federal is disturbing on many levels. However, the Daily Kos said with the Persona Management Software it would take very few people to create "an army of sockpuppets" which could distort the truth while appearing to be "an entire Brooks Brothers riot online."  more -->  

        In another document unearthed by "Anonymous," one of HBGary's employees also mentioned gaming geolocation services to make it appear as though selected fake persons were at actual events. 

Government involvement

     Eerie as that may be, more perplexing, however, is a federal contract (PDF) from the 6th Contracting Squadron at MacDill Air Force Base, located south of Tampa, Florida, that solicits providers of "persona management software." Update: The contract has since been taken off FBO.gov. The link above has been updated. 

   While there are certainly legitimate applications for such software, such as managing multiple "official" social media accounts from a single input, the more nefarious potential is clear. 

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"We don't see something on Twitter and go and drop bombs," Mike Bracken said. "We never act on a single source. It's more complex." He refused to discuss which accounts analysts followed.  

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      Unfortunately, the Air Force's contract description doesn't help dispel suspicions. As the text explains, the software would require licenses for 50 users with 10 personas each, for a total of 500. These personas would have to be "replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographacilly consistent."

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=miusrata17miusrata&view=subscribers&start=480
Who are subscribers? 

Channel Views: 89,718 / Total Upload Views: 1,059,882 / Joined: Feb 26, 2011 

software would require licenses for 50 users with 10 personas each, for a total of 500

 

      It continues, noting the need for secure virtual private networks that randomize the operator's Internet protocol (IP) address, making it impossible to detect that it's a single person orchestrating all these posts. Another entry calls for static IP address management for each persona, making it appear as though each fake person was consistently accessing from the same computer each time. 

 http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=miusrata17miusrata&view=subscribers&start=480

Channel Views: 89,718 / Total Upload Views: 1,059,882 / Joined: Feb 26, 2011

     The contract also sought methods to anonymously establish virtual private servers with private hosting firms in specific geographic locations. This would allow that server's "geosite" to be integrated with their social media profiles, effectively gaming geolocation services.

The Air Force added that the "place of performance" for the contract would be at MacDill Air Force Base, along with Kabul, Afghanistan and Baghdad. The contract was offered on June 22, 2010.

It was not clear exactly what the Air Force was doing with this software, or even if it had been procured. 

    Though many questions remain about how the military would apply such technology, the reasonable fear should be perfectly clear. "Persona management software" can be used to manipulate public opinion on key information, such as news reports. An unlimited number of virtual "people" could be marshaled by only a few real individuals, empowering them to create the illusion of consensus.  more -- > 

 http://www.youtube.com/user/LibyaAlHurraBenghazi

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In the early days of the Libya war, U.S. commanders were adamant that they didn’t communicate with the Libyan rebels about what targets to bomb. As it turns out, they don’t need to. They’ve got Twitter.

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READ ALSO:

NATO-MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part I) Fake profiles--> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/nato-matrix-or-disneyland.html

NATO-MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part II) Crime on Twitter -- > http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/nato-matrix-or-disneyland-part-ii.html

NATO MATRIX or DISNEYLAND (part III) US, Twitter and excellent english ->

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/nato-matrix-or-disneyland-part-iii.html

Warning: help Libya not OTAN! OTAN using tweets to locate and target “enemy combatants”

Editor’sNote:
I have left the following comment on the HRI post:
“I agree that people must use discretion when engaging social media platforms for any purpose but are you suggesting that genuine resistance to the aggressive occupation of a sovereign nation is to be discouraged?

The only Libyans who would disclose the position of government militias or armed civilians, would be OTAN informants. Given the extremity of the barbarity demonstrated by the “imported, U.S. funded, al qaeda rebels”, it would not be beneath them to inform on unarmed refugees fleeing places like Misurata, in order to manufacture consent for OTAN strikes.

Whether Libyans are in the militias defending against OTAN or are civilians the fact is that NATO’s position is illegitimate.

You must understand that resolution 1970 (please see clause 6) and 1973 are in themselves a violation and mockery of International law.

OTAN was never concerned about protecting civilians. If that were the case why would a “no fly zone” require unrelenting bombardments and the openly stated intention to assassinate Gadaffi and his family?

Who orcestrate Social Media?

Indeed, if OTAN intended to protect civilians, why are they using depleted uranium munitions?

Genocide is what OTAN is commiting and anything the Libyan people must do in their own defense is, under International law, both legal and acceptable.

NATO’s Air War In Libya: 10,570 Air Missions, 3,999 Strike Sorties – Doc

Alexandra Valiente”

Mark. HRI

OTAN has disclosed some ways they use twitter according to a report released by AFP (posted below).

OTAN has made three statements regarding their use of Twitter.

Firstly Wing Commander Mike Bracken has stated that NATO gets information from “open sources on the internet, we get Twitter,” which is a surprise to no one.

More interesting is that OTAN officials have stated:

1) Libyans have been providing information in tweets regarding troop movements
2) NATO Intelligence monitor twitter to identify targets

There are a few points to make about this:

A) These activities run the risk of blurring the distinction between combatants and the civilian population which can endanger the general civilian population.

B) Regarding 1) – it isn’t stated whether these Libyans are combatants (integrated in the militia) or civilian, but its worth noting that civilians who engage directly in combat – which would include providing targeting information – would run a risk of being placed in the unfortunate category of “unlawful combatants” and facing criminal liability for their actions. Just to note, even if they were placed in this category, they should still be treated humanely but they might not be granted POW status.

C) States using civilians in violation of the law of war will be in breach of their responsibility under that law.

In a conflict ostensibly aimed at protecting civilians, which will doubtless inform the way future conflicts are conducted, consideration needs to be given to these issues.

Tweets tip off OTAN on potential Libya air raids
AFP

BRUSSELS — Twitter as a weapon of war? OTAN has scrambled warplanes against Moamer Kadhafi’s forces after Libyans tweeted troop movements on the micro-blogging website, alliance officials said.

Twitter and Facebook are among a wide range of media and other sources OTAN’s intelligence officers monitor around-the-clock to identify potential targets in the air war against Kadhafi’s troops, the officials said.

“We will take information from every source we can,” said British Wing Commander Mike Bracken, the Libya operation’s military spokesman. “We get information from open sources on the Internet, we get Twitter.”

A OTAN official said Libyans have been tweeting from the rebel-held city of Misrata, Ajdabiya and Tripoli, providing information ranging from movements of troops and tank columns to shellings of towns and fleeing refugees.

“Twitter is a great source,” the official said on condition of anonymity.

The official stressed that any information gleaned from the website is checked against other more reliable sources such as satellite imagery and other traditional intelligence gathering before any jets are deployed.

“On their own they don’t represent a reliable source but they do help to draw attention to emerging issues or threats that can be checked out with more sophisticated means,” the official added.

The United Nations mandate that authorised that OTAN mission in Libya forbids the presence of ground troops, forcing the alliance to rely on other sources of information.

Copyright © 2011 AFP.

source: http://alexandravaliente.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/warning-help-libya-not-nato-nato-using-tweets-to-locate-and-target-enemy-combatants/