Kenyan police 'hack Al Qaeda laptop'

Middle East Times ^ | Jan. 31, 2007 | UPI

[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.

[FairOpinion]

Another small victory for the good guys in the war against the terrorists.

[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."

[Cindy]

Yes, I read that somewhere this week.

I hope they are sharing the info with our guys.

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[randog]

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

[RunningWolf]

I hope it's not just a big money scam, but the real thing.

Wolf

[Northern Alliance]

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

[ConservativeMan55]

lol

[Cindy]

Smiling...

[james500]

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

[D-fendr]

Vista.

Took them three days to boot it up.

[Dahoser]

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.

[Northern Alliance]

Vista.

Took them three days to boot it up.

:-)

[word_warrior_bob]

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

[Right Wing Assault]

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

[ExGeeEye]

My apologies to all...the first thing I thought of on reading the headline was...

"machetes?"

[ExGeeEye]

GMTA

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