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February 8, 2013

Can Social Media Disarm Syria's Chemical Arsenal?

Eli Lake, The Daily Beast

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When a bombing knocked out top Assad officials, Western intelligence agencies scrambled to find those left holding the deadly stash. Their tools: Facebook, Skype, Twitter and more.

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TAGGED: Facebook, Twitter, Middle East, chemical weapons, Syria

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