Very interesting article. Very long, too, but well worth the time. (Also, I find it very well written in that it presents a pretty large and complex amount of i

Very interesting article. Very long, too, but well worth the time. (Also, I find it very well written in that it presents a pretty large and complex amount of information in a way that is easy to follow.) The impression I get away with is that the political/religious/economical landscape in the middle east is way more complex than most media reports lead one to think. The part about cellphone metadata was highly interesting, too. It shows how this metadata can be used for investigating crimes, but it does not take much creativity to imagine how an oppressive government can use such data for building profiles of opposition movements.