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Furor continues over unprecedented mobile phone-tapping case
An unprecedented mobile phone-tapping conspiracy targeting Greece's top political leadership, including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, monopolised a government press briefing on Friday along with the nation's press coverage, as dozens of questions mostly focused on the actions of the mobile phone provider, Vodafone, and on the course of an 11-month probe into the affair. (((They're barking up the wrong tree. It's never the providers themselves.)))
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Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis explained that 14 pre-paid mobile phones are believed to have been planted in fixed positions within the radius of targeted individuals' offices and homes in downtown Athens. Additionally, the 14 phones also received calls, with authorities tracing the identities of callers, which however, did not turn up any wrongdoing. All 14 pre-paid cell phones ceased to function after the "ghost software" was disabled, the ministers said.
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In response to certain local press reports on Friday implicating the US embassy in Athens vis-a-vis the affair – given that the embassy building stands more-or-less in the middle of a cellular phone triangle where the government says the phone tapping occurred – Roussopoulos strenuously rejected any notion that the government "even indirectly" pointed to US intelligence as behind the affair.
The spokesman noted that Public Order Minister Voulgarakis simply cited the spots where cell phone transmitters were located – Lycabettus Hill, Mavili Square (adjacent to the US embassy), a nearby skyscraper and hospital (Lefkos Stavros). (((It's not the Yankees either. Centipedes are non-state actors. There are maybe one or two tech-geeks handling the phone phreak activities and the rest are... spooks, private detectives, political operatives, and somebody with enough cash to make the risk seem worthwhile. In the Indian centipede, it's the missing "prominent industrialist." In the British centipede, it's Matthew Mellon. Who paid for this in Greece?)))
One of the 46 individuals whose mobile phones were tapped was, in fact, identified as an employee of the US embassy in Athens.
(((And also, while I'm on the subject, where are the actresses? I'm not sure centipedes work without actresses – or at least a stiletto-heeled shoe-mogul who "happens" to be the daughter or a prominent gangster.)))
The 46 individuals listed as having fallen victim to the mobile phone tapping include Karamanlis, the foreign minister, defence minister, the public order minister, the justice minister, the deputy foreign minister, former PASOK minister Yiannos Papantoniou, the mayor of Athens, a few journalists, police officials, diplomats, defence ministry cadres and attorneys, as well as mobile phones belonging to ruling New Democracy party. (((Imagine somebody sitting down at the laptop compiling this target list. Whoever he is, he's not kidding around.)))
Other targeted individuals include a bevy of known anti-state, anti-war or out-of-Parliament leftist activists, along with 11 individuals with Arab surnames, including a correspondent for "Al Jazeera" and a former correspondent in Athens for a Syrian newspaper. (((Man, oh man.)))
