by Gouda » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:02 am
Well, this is interesting and I am wondering if anyone has heard of it before. This might need to be sent to PT's 911 timeline if it is not already there. The following information comes from an article in the Italian journal <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>L'Espresso</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, 14 September 2006 issue. I found a version on the web, but unfortunately it had to be put through the awful translation ringer. I tried to weed out some superfluous language and made a few of my own grammar edits to aid comprehension. It gets technical in the middle, and the translation is more confusing there. <br><br>The gist is this: A flurry of outgoing-only telephones calls were made from a high-tech, specialized, previously inactive (ie. not activated) phone line in a postindustrial communications complex operated by an Itlalian consortium next to <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigonella">Sigonella, US naval air station</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> near Catania, Sicily from 9 Sept 01 to 10 sept 01. The calls were made to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and...Maine, where Atta has been placed at the time. No incoming or return calls were received and the apparently very special line was only used during that 2-day period prior to the attacks. I think they are saying someone very sophisticated was able to hack into it. It has not been established if the calls were vocal or data stream. the significance is of course, the coincidental proximity of the Sigonella navy air base, which is home to their Meditteranean Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station. <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Catania, mystery 11 september</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>by Piero Messina<br><br>One not active telephone line. Only used in the two nights before the Towers: tens of calls between Maine and Afghanistan<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>A telephone line that did not work. But someone successfully threaded it. And in two nights it made tens of international telephone calls, later to return to Hush... The things are complicated when the dates are noted: the 10 calls only happened on the 9 and 10 september 2001.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> And if the countries are taken an examination object of the telephone calls, then it is understood to be ended right in the middle a true intrigue. On the eve of the attack to the Twin Towers, from that formally not active line they come contacts the Afghanistan to you, Saudi Arabia, the Bahrein. Above all it comes called Maine, the state of the United States where Atta Mohamed and his companions were in order launch the attack. Two nights of phrenetic traffic, that they design the map of the fondamentalista terrorism, then nuller. [It has got] Digos [Italian investigative agency] and of the attentions of the Italian and American intelligence.<br><br>... a mystery all sicialian. Rendered still more driven in from the characteristics of the line: an old ISDN that comes considered to clonazione test. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>And from the fact that the titular company of the user is found to little distance from the airport of Sigonella, the greatest American base of the Mediterranean and heart of the electronic warfare against the organization of Osama Bin Laden.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Insomma, the episode happened in the Etna Valley, that flat slice of Catania torn to the orange groves from the industries hi-tech, has all the ingredients of the spy story. A history that could get confused in the great net data transmission that has rendered the Sicily western a 'navel of the mondo' virtual, where interlaces cables to fiber optic of the main ridges of the world-wide communication, with a gomitolo underground that it counts nearly one hundred cable kilometers.<br><br>At the center of this enigmatic telephone line ISDN never installed is one completely. Enrolled in the telephone district of Catania, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the line is always remained in ' silenzio'. Until the 9-9-2001 and to the successive night. Silent for months, and then never used again, in the space of two nights the line generated an incredible volume of international traffic. No incoming calls. Only contacts in departure: a pair that connected the heart of the Sicily to Maine, the region of the United States where, from the reconstructions of the FBI, Atta Mohamed spent the night </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->and other dirottatori before embarking themselves to the airport of Portland in order then to enter in action. Those scampoli of telephone calls towards the United States, but, are minority part of the traffic. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The great part of the calls put in contact the user with Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrein and other emirati of the Gulf. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->They were vocal conversations or data traffics? Impossible to establish it.<br><br>The user was demanded some months before from an entrepreneurial group of the province of Catania, presumablly one rib combined to the "Consortium Area of Industrial Development." The stipulated contract previewed that the customer would have had in equipment a system ISDN. The channel came activated, but the necessary equipments so that the company could used the line never did not come supplied: that channel could not work. It would seem sure that has not been able it to use the company that had commissioned it. The only ones ' telefonate' contabilizzate, then, are just those recorded in the two fatidical nights.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>To the end of 2001, the company looked at to recapitare one salata bill. One incredible what: the line had never been activated.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The company protested with the operator, demonstrating not to have obtained the complete istallazione of the system: endured what found from the division customers business that it supplied to cancel the forgotten bill. (...) but, that telephone line is in the view-finder of the investigators anti-terrorism of the capoluogo sicialian. That they want to see us on those two clear entire nights passages to the telephone and above all mean to understand the sense of those calls towards United States and the countries of the Arabic world on the eve of the attack to the America.<br><br>Five years later the attempt to reconstruct the episode is a distance impervio: road in climb that will lead the investigators in one risen of contest to stages. Managed in the maximum secrecy. The mysterious traffic would journey on one of lines ISDN demanded to Telecom from the Consortium area of industrial development - zone n: a dozen of users, connected in the same period. It is important to ricostrire all is made of the installation, in order to characterize possible makes taken advantage of them in order to become part in the line. And then it will be task of the advisers informed to us to complete the map of the incursion and to establish with which modalities came taken advantage of the telephone line in the two nights key for the plan of the quaedisti dirottatori.<br><br>The ISDN (acronym of Integrated Services Digital Network) by now exceeded from the technological development, is digital lines them to double channel multinumber. The information 'scorrono' on the line under shape of codes numbers in binary system in order then to be combined in digital shape them thanks one borchia. For this, it marks them that she runs on lines ISDN is not intercepable. It is a line that cannot be clonata, if not can be used from external emplacements by means of the installation of borchia along a point whichever of the tracing of the line, beyond that on the point they finishes.<br><br>The ISDN is considered extremely poured them: they concur also the transfer of call and, thanks to according to channel of which they decide, are usable for conversations to three. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>In this case it is also possible that one logon kinds one conversation between two interlocutors connected to the main line: the line can have been used like bridge. Of this connection, but, some trace could not have remained.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>And this complicates surveyings. An episode for some backs analogous always happened to Palermo in coincidence with the 11 september. In that case, a highly summarized surveying came completed from the Sisde that analyzed to the relative printouts you to some telephone calls that connected the capoluogo sicialian to countries of the Arabic world. In spite of the coincidence with the eve of the attack to New York, it did not come not opened an official surveying since, considered the vastness of the muslim community resident in western Sicily, that traffic came reputato not suspicion.<br><br>Very various the case of the Etna Valley, that it could become part in that maze of marks them on the ragnatela European that was to acquaintance of the plan against the World Trade Center. Like Abu Dahdah that came intercepted to Madrid while it explained of "to have prepared something that sure it will appeal to. We are enters to you in the field of aviation and we are in order to cut the throat to the birds ". And like the presumed qaedista leader Abu Saleh whom it made to arrive to its stopped companions to Saint Vittore one envelope with within the cartina of one celebre rubber to chew, with the bridge of Brooklyn flown over from an airplane. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://66.218.71.231/language/translation/translatedPage.php?tt=url&text=http%3a//espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/Catania%2C%2520mistero%252011%2520settembre/1380283&lp=it_en&.intl=us&fr=yfp-t-500">Link here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
