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SIGINT Helps End the Career of Bomb-Maker in Iraq Known as ‘Chicken Man’

SUMMARY

An analysis intern at Menwith Hill, UK, used call records and intercepted phone calls to identify a known IED manufacturer. This, in turn, helped prepare a “targeting package” which resulted in nine captured or killed "mostly foreign" insurgents, including the bomb maker. 

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Jul 12, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

May 29, 2019

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Iraq