Hey! This doozie of an article deserves attention --

[DeepModem Mom]

It's been posted three times, and lost in the crowd.

LAT: U.S. Military Secrets for Sale at Afghan Bazaar

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — No more than 200 yards from the main gate of the sprawling U.S. base here, stolen computer drives containing classified military assessments of enemy targets, names of corrupt Afghan officials and descriptions of American defenses are on sale in the local bazaar.

Shop owners at the bazaar say Afghan cleaners, garbage collectors and other workers from the base arrive each day offering purloined goods, including knives, watches, refrigerators, packets of Viagra and flash memory drives taken from military laptops.... A reporter recently obtained several drives at the bazaar that contained documents marked "Secret." The contents included documents that were potentially embarrassing to Pakistan, a U.S. ally, presentations that named suspected militants targeted for "kill or capture" and discussions of U.S. efforts to "remove" or "marginalize" Afghan government officials whom the military considered "problem makers."

The drives also included deployment rosters and other documents that identified nearly 700 U.S. service members and their Social Security numbers, information that identity thieves could use to open credit card accounts in soldiers' names.

After choosing the name of an army captain at random, a reporter using the Internet was able to obtain detailed information on the woman, including her home address in Maryland and the license plate numbers of her 2003 Jeep Liberty sport utility vehicle and 1998 Harley Davidson XL883 Hugger motorcycle....

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A flash drive also contained a classified briefing about the capabilities and limitations of a "man portable counter-mortar radar" used to find the source of guerrilla mortar rounds. A map pinpoints the U.S. camps and bases in Iraq where the sophisticated radar was deployed in March 2004....

(NOTE: All kinds of secret documents, naming names, locations, etc., are referenced in this article. Bagram was also the place from which four AQ members escaped in July by picking the lock on their cell. They remain at large.)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disks10apr10,0,7789909.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

1. Ah, the joy of firghting indigineous people on their turf

Guerilla warfare with at least 75% of the civilian population against the "invaders", us in this case.

[Dhalgren]

2. Our military has become a reflection of its Commander in Chief!

The "Peter Principle" gone wild... The military has always been "stupid" in certain areas, but this is just a gross case of "Bush mind-set"...

[havocmom]

3. Throw into the mix the fact that more tax returns are processed in India

every year... Not just the military at risk. YOUR info goes who knows where.

The junta doesn't care about your privacy, your safety, your life. They wanna make sure $$ gets funneled to private companies and legal matters do not matter.