If you want to get inventory that's fully transparent, viewable and with no fraud, you simply go into the sites you want and you buy them.
The attackers did not break into the sites' operating systems, but used a far simpler tactic: creating an overload of access attempts.
When users type entries into the sites' search boxes, Google serves up the advertisements that appear alongside the results; rival suppliers do not get a look in.
A reanalysis of the site in 1998, however, revealed no evidence for hearths, ash, or charcoal and indicated that some of the "ash" layers were in fact water-laid sediments washed into the sites from the surrounding hillsides.
To have read over the past decade about Mr. Hussein's weapons projects is one thing; to walk into the sites where the work was done, to talk to some of the scientists and engineers who were at the center of it and to see the ruins at Tuwaitha and elsewhere, is to cross into another dimension.
The raids were carried out following an investigation by the National Trading Standards eCrime team into the sites, which trick users into parting with their cash unnecessarily by charging for services that are provided cheaper or free-of-charge through official government channels.
