‘Treasure Trove’ of Al-Qaeda Documents Found in…Pornographic Video
- Posted on May 1, 2012 at 8:34pm by
Erica Ritz
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Just when you thought you had al-Qaeda all figured out– certain that they are a bunch of hardline extremists who shun seeing a woman’s ankles– they go and surprise you once again.
What did they do this time? They encoded some of their most important secrets in a pornographic video.
According to CNN, a porn film called “Kick A*s” was found on a memory card in the underwear of an al-Qaeda recruit who was detained in Germany after showing up on a terrorist watch list.
After weeks of investigation by cryptologists, the Germans have found more than 100 invaluable al-Qaeda documents on the drive in files marked “Lessons Learned,” “Future Plans,” and “Sexy Tanja,” among others.
A stash of pornography was reportedly found in Osama bin Laden's hideout, as well
US officials are calling the discovery a “treasure trove” of information. The files include terrorist training manuals in German, English, and Arabic, reflections on past attacks, and plans, for instance, to hijack a European cruise ship.
The plan would, most likely, include executing passengers in an effort to pressure international governments to release prisoners and, for some reason, making passengers dress up in orange jumpsuits in a reference to Guantanamo Bay.
Maqsood Lodin, the man in whose underwear the video was found, is pleading “not guilty” to terrorism charges in Berlin. However, prosecutors believe that Lodin and the man with whom he was traveling were sent to Europe to recruit a network of suicide bombers.
The plan for a European network of suicide bombers follows with what the decrypted material indicates– that al-Qaeda is likely to start embracing a “twin track” strategy of combining low-cost, low-risk attacks like that in France last month, where lone gunman starting shooting children, with high-profile attacks like 9/11.
“I believe that the general idea is still alive and I believe that as soon as al-Qaeda has the capacities to go after that scenario, they will immediately do it,” Yassin Musharbash, the investigative journalist who broke the story, remarked.
And now some are left wondering—while everyone was mocking the fact that Osama bin Laden was found with an “extensive” porn stash in his Pakistan hideout, should we really have been investigating those videos?
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Constructionist
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:44amKudos to the cryptologist who had the moxy to tell his boss, “Hey, I’m gonna study this porn tape for a week.”
Report Post »s0ck_monkey
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:46amDon’t ever believe that muslims and followers of islam frown on alcohol, pron, etc. While serving in Pakistan and Afghanistan, myself and friends of mine were approached by members of the Pakistani Air Force and every day civilians – they offered to trade “girl friends” for mundane items like candy and “porn”….they were referring to some Maxim magazines we had.
Another time, others approached us with bottles of vodka…Russian labels, sealed with cork and wax, if we would trade with them for magazines, etc.
So yeah, muslims and islamic followers like to drink and rub one out just like everyone else.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:40amJust goes to show-he wasn‘t a religious fanatic and al quada did not attack us cause we’re not muslim;he was a freedom fighter bringing us to the knowledge that the days when we could act in their homelands with policies that benefitted us but harmed his people -with impunity -are over. His cause was political and just[he supported the topppling of american backed dictators too.]History will have a different narrative about him then your self serviong false narrative about islamic extremism.is lam had nothing to do with the rise of alquada-our unjust policies did!.
Report Post »mitch2167
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:38pmRose-Ellen
Report Post »Just goes to show-he wasn‘t a religious fanatic and al quada did not attack us cause we’re not muslim;he was a freedom fighter bringing us to the knowledge that the days when we could act in their homelands with policies that benefitted us but harmed his people -with impunity -are over. His cause was political and just[he supported the topppling of american backed dictators too.]History will have a different narrative about him then your self serviong false narrative about islamic extremism.is lam had nothing to do with the rise of alquada-our unjust policies did!.
Do you really believe this stuff or were you fed it by extra terrestrials?
Coredestroy
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:09amUp next on Turban’s Gone Wild! The Secret Servicing of Nancy Pelosi….
No one would watch that regardless of what’s embedded on it.
Report Post »kaptainkaffir
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 2:38pmOMG! I just puked in my mouth.
Report Post »Your one sick puppy…………….. I like that in a person.
Foxxybrown
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:45amDUMG & DUMBER….
Report Post »I don’t this was that big of a find, a couple of lone wolf camel jockeys that sleep with goats reported by a network like CNN that usually get scooped by high school newspapers….
MrObvious
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:31amI wonder if the terrorist’s first thought, when they found it, was O (rap?
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 11:19pm“The war on terror is over”…so lets get the hell out of Afghanistan….just leave Obama there.
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:32amlol
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 10:06pmThe TSA better get to the cruise ship ports and get a grip on this.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 10:36pmA grip……………….on what?
Report Post »Wheelchair white grandmothers?
Four year old little white boys & girls?
Qoheleth
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:58pmIt’s a technique that goes back to before computers: You take your important information, encode it, and embed it into something that is embarrassing. Then, when people find it, they think “Oh, look! They’ve got porn” and don’t look any further. Have you ever wondered that it’s almost a given that AL-QAEDA finds include porn? This guy was an amateur in that his data was plain text rather than embedded into the porn. It takes a fair bit of computer time and some luck to find data that‘s steganographically embedded into pictures without the encryption key and that’s if you actually think to look for it.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 11:29pmThat’s right…amateurs. They didn’t “encrypt” or “embed” anything. Also a micro SD card “in” your body is much better than in your underwear. Glad they got caught.
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:58pmThat is why they all go to strip clubs when they come here. So now are we going to have to put all strippers on a terrorists watch list. Boy will the tsa have fun with that one.
Report Post »YourVoiceMatters
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:32pmso how does this go again?
there is porn and
there is lap dances !
there is blowing things up
there s slaughtering innocent women and children
there s raping n piliging …..
holy gihadist porn kings chasing virgins!
You know, where they’re goin
them virgins’ll be really
too hot hot hot to handle anyway!
I think you have to be on some seriously delusional CRAP to believe any of this!
Report Post »Structure21
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:29pmPorn is educational!!!
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:28pmTerrorists are about as good with keeping secrets as disgruntled escorts.
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:13pmAnd those pesky SS were not doing their jobs. They were even sacrificing their bodies to get information. Who knows what one of those babes tattoos might have encoded on them and they had to do full body scan to find them. So now, the terrorist can go to local porn shop to get their information.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:12pmHow did it get in his underwear? Oh, I know, when the German police began their interrogation, he crapped his pants, which was unfortunate as he thought he was okay when he swallowed the memory stick when he was arrested! Out it pooped! Too bad!
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:08pmthey gets points for clever excuses to watch porn.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:07pmPeople who have to hide women behind a “veil”
and not allow them outside; unchaperoned
;^>should always have their underwear inspected.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:07pmSo, was the memory card hidden inside a goat’s dismembered penis, then secreted in the terrorist’s rectum?
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:23pmNo, that was Achmed. Altogether different story line.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:02pmsomething else for the secret service to consider
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:13pmIt should be right down their alley, so to speak!
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:02pmJust goes to show that Pres Obama doesn’t know what he was talking about in tonights speech.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:09pmIn what speech has he ever shown proclivity to it’s subject?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:35pmRemember: He reads the teleprompter well. And he dresses well. That is his gift. Hollywood awaits.
Report Post »VoteRightDammit
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 8:51pm” … Osama bin Laden was found with an “extensive” porn stash in his Pakistan hideout, should we really have been investigating those videos?”
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I‘m sure if any of it was GAY porn it’s all safely secured in Obama’s office.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:33amAnd the title would be “Stickin it to the Man”
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 8:49pmhey jzs your famous !!!!!!!!!!
i found a picture of you
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/fbi/fbi-informant-infiltrated-occupy-movement-758348
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 8:49pmDon’t go there! You will NEVER find HOLINESS in UNHOLY beings. NEVER!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 8:48pmBecause no one in the world looks at porn! What dummies!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 8:46pmWhat’s with these guys and under ware ? We had the under ware bomber and now the video storage under ware . And the pornography bit. So appropriate. These guys are all just sick. They have anger issues. They have identity issues. They have sexual issues. They are just mental basket cases.
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:01pmOh… and spy ware!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:08pmand…..head wear
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 9:21pmThey probably thought they were safe! Since they don’t use toilet paper in that part of the World, maybe they thought any investigator would have just thought it was a dingleberry scraper–kind of a modern touch for the al-Queda bunch! Sheesh, I hope the guy who ‘found it’ double-gloved before handling it! And, I think the computer that retrieved the data is going to be marked as a biohazard!
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:53amYeah they could create there own form of software called spyectum.Its also the only spyware I know of that would need fitting checks rather than compatibility checks.Don’t get me started on the updating features.Part of it though I can imagine would be to check to see if it needs enlarging.Too many goats for partners does that.
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