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Edited on Fri Sep-21-07 04:23 PM by cryingshame
DU'er american_typeculture found the MSNBC blurb and I just googled LauraMansfield and got a freaking website. Some soccer Mom not only translates Arabic websites and uncovers terrorist videos but also maintains a professional website and service?
S.C. mom prowls Internet to hunt terrorists Laura Mansfield scooped al-Qaida on recent bin Laden video
WASHINGTON - Once her three kids are off to school, Laura Mansfield settles in at her dining room table with her laptop and begins trolling Arabic-language message boards and chat rooms popular with jihadists.
Fluent in Arabic, the self-employed terror analyst often hacks into the sites, translates the material, puts it together and sends her analysis via a subscription service to intelligence agencies, law enforcement and academics.
Occasionally she comes across a gem, such as when she found a recent Osama bin Laden video — before al-Qaida had announced it.
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"It gets really challenging when you're trying to do that and cook spaghetti at the same time," she said.
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