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The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
The development
The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding is a developing story worth watching.
What changes
Hacker News highlights this story because it changes the calculus for actors watching phone, book, led, assad, spy.
The setting
Earlier reporting from Hacker News and comparable outlets sketched the conditions that would eventually produce an event like this.
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We read the phone book that led us to assad's spy chief in hiding as a marker of momentum, not a conclusion.
Source note
Hacker News reporting: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o