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Military Intelligence

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  • 08-11-2007 4:04pm
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    Mr. Presentable
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    Remember a couple of years back, when the US forces gunned down an Italian in the process of rescuing a civilian hostage? Well here’s the recently declassified report http://download.repubblica.it/pdf/rapportousacalipari.pdf and as you’d expect, large wodges of it are obscured for reasons of security.


    Here’s an exercise. Highlight some of the obscured text, and copy it into Word, and see what happens!

    And they wonder why they’re losing.


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    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    IT security obviously isn't one of their strong points anyway...


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    thebman
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    lol but blacky should have blocked the text. Oh no!


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    ballooba
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    Military Intelligence is an oximoron.


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    Conor108
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    Ah now you wouldn't get that in the DF. Quality PDF files we have


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    ballooba
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    I wonder why they call that road "Route Irish". I bet the NI veterans gave it that name.


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    biko
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    ballooba wrote: »
    Military Intelligence is an oximoron.
    oxymoron


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    GLaDOS
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    Military Intelligence, 2 words combined that can't make sense :)

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    Mr.Micro
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    Dont forget these intelligence fools are the ones who said there were WMD Moronic or what?.


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    toiletduck
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    ballooba wrote: »
    Military Intelligence is an oximoron.

    Not really.

    Lol at the document!


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    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,220 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    *nipplenuts must belong to :)ly's People?*

    The director of NSA (No Such Agency) was seen rushing to the Oval Office to inform King George II that some Irish hacker has unmasked them. The Red Phone has been dialed (low tech) and a stealth bomber is now being tasked to drop a daisy cutter the size of a VW Bug on the nipplenuts residence. It will refuel at Shannon, as many US military aircraft now do, before it's final stage to the target zone.

    Of course, a few blocks surrounding the nipplenuts home will be flattened, but the overseas news wire services will be "informated" (a Bushism) that every conceivable measure was taken to ensure that no one else was sent to the Happy Hunting Ground. But if someone is, then no problem, they will be depersonalised and called collateral damage.

    In the US domestic news, it will be reported that an urban blight has been cleared in Ireland to pave the way for a new American financed shopping centre. Many Irish will be employed to construct the retail mall serving to improve the job market. Of course Halliburton (of Iraq and Dick Chaney fame) will get an exclusive contract to draw up the plans, buy below standard materials, and supervise the construction (without adequate building inspection). A new Star$ucks coffeehouse is scheduled to open on the site as soon as the rubble can be cleared away.

    In the meantime, it's being leaked to the press (by the Lizard People)* that there will be a secret meeting in a cold, dark parking structure near the Watergate Hotel. A bloke in a trench coat, shades, hat and newspaper (to cover his all too familiar face) will whisper with a Texas drawl the "real" reason why the nipplenuts residence was destroyed. It was a feminist plot conceived by the female Democratic Party presidential candidate to make an example of nipplenuts to the world for pinching that girl's butt in the pub a few weeks past. Of course there will be no proof of this, but the press always loves a story sensationalised by sex and violence.



    *NSA announces new and improved classified censor colour! The colour of the "good" guys.


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    Rhyme
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Military Intelligence, 2 words combined that can't make sense :)
    Megadeth, nice.


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    Nuttzz
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    ballooba wrote: »
    I wonder why they call that road "Route Irish". I bet the NI veterans gave it that name.

    no, after than american football team

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Airport_Road

    i remember the socialist workers party claimed it was called that because of the refueling in shannon...


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    Steyr
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    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    the Oval Office to inform King George II that some Irish hacker has unmasked them. The Red Phone has been dialed (low tech) and a stealth bomber is now being tasked to drop a daisy cutter the size of a VW Bug on the nipplenuts residence. It will refuel at Shannon, as many US military aircraft now do, before it's final stage to the target zone.[/COLOR]

    Nah it wont refuel at EINN ( Shannon ) it can mid air refuel.


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    Manic Moran
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    Recent?

    May 2005 just called. Wondering what kept you. But yes, it was a bit of an embarassing move.

    NTM


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