Tom,

>Thank you David. Good link and good news! All the news reports I watched and listened to did not mention the U.S. being involved. Typical media coverage - be selective and have a commercial! :)

Well, since it's probably the NSA doing the intercepting and that hasn't been a very popular thing in some quarters in this country, I'm not surprised that some parts of the media might not emphasize it. I was surprised to see it in the Time article, in fact. :-)

>I thought that perhaps the government did not want to discuss any connection we may have had with this operation and thus kept the information away from the public. Just reminds me of a term we used in the service, "Need to know"!

That's probably the case, since the government didn't want the terrorist wiretapping programs exposed (to preserve their effectiveness).