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Paedophiles held in global raids
14.06PM BST, 2 Jul 2002

Dozens of suspected paedophiles have been held in synchronised raids across the world in an operation led by UK police.

Officers from the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit worked for a year to smash an Internet-based child abuse ring which called itself the "Shadowz Brotherhood".

Hundreds of officers swooped on suspects' homes this morning in seven countries, seizing dozens of computers.

Even hardened detectives described the images and videos involved as the most horrific they had ever seen - many involved babies.

The police investigation - code-named Operation Twins - was supported by Europol in The Hague.

In Britain, there were a number of arrests including a 27-year-old man from Hounslow, west London, a 26-year-old man from Eltham, south London, a 25-year-old man from Middlesex, a 62-year-old man from Reading, Berkshire, a 23-year-old from Wiltshire and a man in his 50s from Northamptonshire were detained.

A Europol spokesman said around 50 suspects were involved and their homes were searched this morning.

"In all cases the occupants were implicated in crimes relating to child abuse and pornography," said the spokesman.

"A substantial quantity of equipment was seized including computers and laptops containing images of child abuse, videos and CD's."

The group stretched from the UK to the US, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

Before today 16 people had already been arrested across the world - one suspect in the US, an air force officer, has committed suicide.

Of the 50 suspects held in the latest raids, 31 were arrested in Germany.

Some members of the brotherhood were themselves involved in sexually abusing children and then posting the images online for others to download.

Their activities centred around a website which also provided advice on how to groom children for abuse in Internet chatrooms and how to evade detection.

When uploading and downloading images to and from the site they used sophisticated encryption techniques, sometimes hiding material in seemingly innocent picture files.

The website was run by a special tier of hardcore paedophiles called "Administrators" who operated a "star" rating system.

After initial vetting by an administrator new members received a "one star" rating allowing them to enter certain chat rooms newsgroups and bulletin boards.

To gain further stars they had to post images of child sex abuse for viewing and downloading by other members.

As they climbed the star ladder they gained deeper access to restricted sites and password protected rooms containing the most sickening material.

An administrator would be on duty 24-hours a day assessing new images.

Detectives compared the structure of the site to a castle with access to the inner sanctums heavily guarded and dependent on star rating.

The brotherhood also operated a cellular structure similar to terrorist and international drug smuggling operations in which only small groups of people within the network were known to each other.

Paedophiles could access the website in languages including English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch.

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God bless,
Kindgo

Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.

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