Terrorists get nabbed via cell phone use

Intelligence officials use cellphone signals to track Al Qaeda operatives, and the number of mid-level arrests is rising, reports The Christian Science Monitor.

"Tiny embedded lights flash red when certain cellphones - those belonging to suspected terrorists - initiate or receive a call. Teams of officials from Saudi Arabia, the FBI, the CIA, and the US Treasury Department decide instantly whether simply to watch and listen to the suspected terrorist - or to send in screaming police cars to nab him.

So far, officials say, this technology - and others - has enabled them to interrupt several terror plots and nab dozens of suspected terrorists.

Terrorists, of course, catch on to the new tracking procedures and seek safer ways to communicate."

emily | 2:59 PM | News, Buzz |
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