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Success Against al-Zarqawi’s Group in Northern Iraq

SUMMARY

A tool called “Quadra Spectre,” developed and deployed in Iraq, correlates text messages and provides “near real-time” location data on suspected insurgents, cutting “days of painstaking analysis to mere hours” and creating a “snowball effect” that helped lead, over 90 days in northern Iraq, to the killing or capture of “134 high-level insurgents and countless associates.”

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Nov 18, 2005

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Mar 01, 2018

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Iraq