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in a curiously-timed follow-up to the guilty plea for jamming phones with robotic dialers in an attempt to influence the outcome of an election, james tobin, northeast political director for the republican senatorial committee has been indicted for conspiracy to commit telephone harassment.

Ex-Bush chairman indicted on charges related to jamming [union leader, december 2, 2004]

The 2002 phone jamming consisted of computer-generated calls to get-out-the-vote phones run by state Democrats and the nonpartisan Manchester firefighters’ union. More than 800 hang-up calls tied up phones for about 90 minutes.

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this is picking up a little traction, probably with some help from sidney blumenthal at the guardian but i like to go to the sources… so once you’ve dropped in there for an editorial, here’s the report that got it all going…

Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication September 2004 [pdf].

American direct intervention in the Muslim World has paradoxically elevated the stature of and support for radical Islamists, while diminishing support for the United States to single-digits in some Arab societies.

What was a marginal network is now an Ummah-wide movement of fighting groups. Not only has there been a proliferation of “terrorist” groups: the unifying context of a shared cause creates a sense of affiliation across the many cultural and sectarian boundaries that divide Islam.

strange, indeed.

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