Hacking a Terror Network: The Silent Threat of Covert Channels

Sources claim that federal officials have two of the terror suspects currently in custody in the Washington, D.C., area. One of the suspects is said to have been the mastermind of the recent failed attacks on three American cruise ships, and the other was captured while trying to escape. Officials are not saying how they learned of the attacks beforehand, except to say that intelligence sources led them to suspect the possible attacks only hours before they were carried out.
The news in this country was so littered with lies and fallacies. The American mind had grown lethargic and seemed incapable of processing simple information on its own. The woman currently speaking on the television was likely reading off a teleprompter, speaking the words of someone else who had taken the facts and congealed them into an attractive, easy to digest, yet totally inaccurate fairy tale. This evening s news was certainly no different. It was almost humorous to an outsider. The Americans were so arrogant, but at the same time they let the government and mass media lead them around by a very short leash.
The actual facts of the story were well known to the man watching the news from his living room chair. He had been in this country for 25 years, working and living as an American, but secretly maintaining his ties to his homeland. He sent money home each month to help support the family still living there. His connections with Al Qaeda...