SIGINT target package leads to USMC capture of al Qaeda weapons procurer
Document Date:
July 5, 2007
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected:
Internet Metadata, Location Information, Internet Content
This NSA memo describes how analysts used GHOSTHUNTER geolocation technology to locate Abu Sayf, a suspected Al Qa'ida weapons facilitator, while he was logging into an Internet café in Iraq.