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Kenyan police 'hack Al Qaeda laptop'
Middle East Times ^ | Jan. 31, 2007 | UPI

Posted on 02/03/2007 10:16:20 PM PST by FairOpinion

Kenyan authorities say they have cracked the password on a laptop computer belonging to one of the most wanted Al Qaeda suspects in Africa.

A report by the Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation, on its Web site Monday quoted anonymous "senior police sources" as saying that the computer "contained vital information on terrorism training and intelligence collection, including spying."

The report gave no further details, but said the computer was seized from the wife of Faisal Abdullah Mohammed - indicted by federal prosecutors for his role in the Al Qaeda truck bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in August, 1998.

Faisal's wife, Halima Badroudine Faisal Husseine, was arrested earlier this month with her three children, crossing the Kenyan border from Somalia - where her husband is widely believed to have been hiding until the turn of the year, when the Islamic militias allegedly sheltering them were routed from Somalia by the Ethiopian military.

The newspaper said police believed Faisal had given her the computer for safe-keeping or delivery to someone else.

Despite calls from Muslim groups in Kenya for Badroudine's release, the government deported her back to Somalia over the weekend, along with 24 others who have been detained crossing the border in recent days.

Officials in Mogadishu told local media that the weekend deportations brought to 57 the number of suspected fighters and supporters of the Islamic militias sent to Somalia since the return of the internationally backed, but internally weak, Transitional Federal Government, which came to power on the coat-tails of the Ethiopian military, earlier this month.

They include nationals of Yemen, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sweden, Comoros, and Morocco, reports said.

(Excerpt) Read more at metimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: africa; alqaeda; alqaida; comoros; computer; ethiopia; globaljihad; jihad; jordan; kenya; laptop; mogadishu; morocco; saudiarabia; somalia; sweden; syria; terrorism; uae; unitedarabemirates; wot; yemen
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Another small victory for the good guys in the war against the terrorists.
1 posted on 02/03/2007 10:16:22 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: Cindy

Kenyan authorities say they have cracked the password on a laptop computer belonging to one of the most wanted Al Qaeda suspects in Africa.

A report by the Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation, on its Web site Monday quoted anonymous "senior police sources" as saying that the computer "contained vital information on terrorism training and intelligence collection, including spying."


2 posted on 02/03/2007 10:16:54 PM PST by FairOpinion (Tell Congress: Work for Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Go to: http://www.TheVanguard.org)
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To: FairOpinion

Yes, I read that somewhere this week.

I hope they are sharing the info with our guys.


3 posted on 02/03/2007 10:18:34 PM PST by Cindy
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4 posted on 02/03/2007 10:19:34 PM PST by narses ("Freedom is about authority." - Rudolph Giuliani)
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To: FairOpinion

I guess one freeeper was right--the password "ILuvBacon" worked.


5 posted on 02/03/2007 10:20:12 PM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: FairOpinion
I hope it's not just a big money scam, but the real thing.

Wolf
6 posted on 02/03/2007 10:41:43 PM PST by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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To: FairOpinion

If it was running Windows, then it's a 30 second job.


7 posted on 02/04/2007 12:18:43 AM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: Northern Alliance

lol


8 posted on 02/04/2007 12:26:07 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: Northern Alliance

Smiling...


9 posted on 02/04/2007 12:37:11 AM PST by Cindy
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To: FairOpinion


I bet they employed a little "rubber hose cryptanalysis".
The password wasn't the only thing they cracked.


10 posted on 02/04/2007 12:51:42 AM PST by james500
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To: Northern Alliance

Vista.

Took them three days to boot it up.


11 posted on 02/04/2007 12:54:45 AM PST by D-fendr
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To: FairOpinion

Did these guys check with the FISA court first? If not, the NY Slimes, Washington Compost and the RATS are going to be very angry at the Kenyans.


12 posted on 02/04/2007 3:39:35 AM PST by Dahoser (Never question Mr. Nibbles!)
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Vista.

Took them three days to boot it up.

:-)

13 posted on 02/04/2007 3:43:28 AM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: FairOpinion

What kind of drill bit did they use to penetrate the rock?


14 posted on 02/04/2007 3:48:42 AM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: FairOpinion

Hmmm. Somehow the Kenyan police hacking a computer brings up images of a bunch of guys with machetes.


15 posted on 02/04/2007 4:37:45 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: FairOpinion
My apologies to all...the first thing I thought of on reading the headline was...

"machetes?"

16 posted on 02/04/2007 4:39:24 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Thanks, non-R voters, for the next two years. Hope it's only two.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

GMTA


17 posted on 02/04/2007 4:40:28 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Thanks, non-R voters, for the next two years. Hope it's only two.)
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To: FairOpinion
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18 posted on 02/04/2007 4:47:46 AM PST by DainBramage
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LOL. Now that sir is funny.


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