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August 22, 2016

NSA Employed Bulk Collection at Belgian Funeral

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According to Belgian intelligence officials, a spy operation conducted by the National Security Agency at a funeral of a suicide bomber led to the capture of a fugitive from last year’s Paris attacks. BuzzFeed News reported over the weekend that the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the lone terrorist survivor of the Paris assault that killed 130 people last year, was facilitated by signals intelligence collected by the US spy agency on funeral-goers. Abdeslam was nabbed by authorities in March, days after the NSA gathered cellular…

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