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These NSA slides describe how the NSA uses SKYNET to track couriers and identify those who "behave similarly" by analyzing GSM metadata. On one slide, Al Jazeera reporter Ahmed Zaidan is described as the highest scoring selector that traveled to Peshawar and Lahore and is listed as a member of Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.