muskatnuss
VIB
centre clandestin, armée libanaise..qu'a t elle fait pour les prévenir?
Ils auraient été repérés par leurs téléphone satellite.
The killings have raised the question of whether the technology the journalists and activists were using to transmit their stories also served as a beacon for Syrian government forces that sought to target them. The press centre was apparently the only place in the city with a live feed for broadcasters and satellite phones emitting a near-constant signal. Syrian government forces could triangulate the location of the satellite transmission.
Intelligence agencies around the world track phone and satellite signals to target enemies. Syrian activists said they took specific measures to avoid being detected when using satellite phones, such as limiting the duration of their calls, and changing locations.
Communications between Syrian army officers intercepted by Lebanese intelligence staff suggest direct orders were issued to target the press centre where Ms. Colvin and others were transmitting, according to The Daily Telegraph. Any deaths would be blamed on crossfire with terrorist groups. As a gathering place for dozens of opposition activists not just journalists it is impossible to tell whether one group or the other was being singled out.
Jean-Pierre Perrin, a Paris-based journalist who was with Ms. Colvin in Homs last week, said they had been warned the Syrian army was planning to shell the centre.
A few days ago we were advised to leave the city urgently and we were told if the Syrian Army find you they will kill you, Mr. Perrin told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Exactly how Syrian forces discovered the location of the press centre is also the subject of intense speculation. Mobile phone networks and electricity have been shut off in Homs for weeks. Satellite phones were virtually the only way to communicate with the outside world.
We know the Syrians use sophisticated technology to monitor all kinds of communications, including satellite communication, said Peter Bouckaert, emergency coordinator for Human Rights Watch.
Earlier on in the uprising, many switched from Thuraya, a mobile satellite services operator based in the United Arab Emirates, to Inmarsat, a British company, and encouraged foreign journalists to do the same because they felt its signal was more secure.
Thuraya had previously stated the company had conclusive evidence that Libya jammed its signals during the civil war there, and thought them susceptible to monitoring.
A number of people I knew who used Thurayas would get caught. In Damascus, I would get into a car, talk for 10 minutes while I drove around, then turn it off, said Rami Jarrah, a Syrian political activist who fled to Egypt with his family during the crackdown.
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