http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/02/20/tactical-success-meet-strategic-failure/ Tales of an accelerating future Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/02/20/tactical-success-meet-strategic-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-2 ToxicMax Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:49:36 +0000 http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=125#comment-2 right, but aren't all of these men wearing baseball caps and even going through the trouble of covering their face with the hands when they pass the camera? How can anyone recognize them based on this footage? right, but aren’t all of these men wearing baseball caps and even going through the trouble of covering their face with the hands when they pass the camera? How can anyone recognize them based on this footage?

]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/02/20/tactical-success-meet-strategic-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3 teedeepee Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:56:08 +0000 http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=125#comment-3 No, their passport photos had been scanned by immigration upon landing. The passports and identities were fake (actually borrowed from innocent people) but their pictures were genuine. Those photos are now all over the news outlets and on the front page of Interpol's "Wanted" page. They are perfectly recognizable -- and probably understimated the Dubai Police capability to trace some video surveillance footage back to their passports. [EDIT] I added the passport pictures of the first 11 suspects to illustrate this. No, their passport photos had been scanned by immigration upon landing. The passports and identities were fake (actually borrowed from innocent people) but their pictures were genuine. Those photos are now all over the news outlets and on the front page of Interpol’s “Wanted” page. They are perfectly recognizable — and probably understimated the Dubai Police capability to trace some video surveillance footage back to their passports.
[EDIT] I added the passport pictures of the first 11 suspects to illustrate this.

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