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by michaelt 897 days ago
Or it wasn't Van Sabben, and the US/Israel just picked some random dead guy to pin the blame on.

These stories are all "according to intelligence sources", they can really anonymously brief out anything that serves their needs.
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someuser2345 897 days ago
> it’s unclear if Van Sabben knew exactly what he was doing, but his family said he appeared to have panicked at around the time of the Stuxnet attack.

It was his family who said that he started panicking, so he was probably involved.

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runjake 897 days ago
After a quick public records search, it looks like he was a real person -- or a real identity with a tangible history. It appears he was formerly married to an American woman in his first marriage.
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pedalpete 897 days ago
The comment isn't suggesting that he didn't exist, but rather that after he died in the motorcycle accident, it was possible to say that he was the actor and protect the people who were actually involved.

All this requires is to understand who died shortly after Stuxnet who could have feasibly been involved.

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ARandomerDude 897 days ago
It’s been done before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

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