[Buddha-l] Tibet uprisings: staged violence?

[Christopher Fynn]

Curt Steinmetz wrote:

> No one should doubt that the Chinese have used agent-provocateurs and 
> every other conceivable dirty trick against Tibetans fighting for their 
> freedom.

> But the idea that spy satellite images can "confirm" the identity of who 
> exactly started a riot down on earth is just patently ridiculous. Gordon 
> Thomas is best known for his works of fiction - this appears to be one 
> of them.

GCHQ is an agency for monitoring signals - stuff like radio messages, phone 
communications etc. A lot of what they do is for the US because much of the 
monitoring of personal communications they do would be illegal in the states - 
but it is OK under UK law. Of course much of this monitoring is now done via 
satellite. GCHQ wouldn't need all the linguists they employ if they were mostly 
looking at images.

If GCHQ does know anything about the situation in Tibet it would primarily have 
to come from their remote monitoring of Chinese police / military / government 
communications. Anything else they might be able to garner from sattelite images 
would just be for confirmation of that.

Anyway let's hope this story is as you suggest fiction by Gordon Thomas. Could 
the story itself even be something floated on behalf of the Chinese to confuse 
the whole issue?

- C
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