pictures of naked kids.
Posted on 05/03/2011 2:35:40 PM PDT by kennedy
The U.S. raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Sunday also turned up an "intelligence harvest" of computer-based data, according to media reports.
Exactly what was seized by U.S. authorities in the raid has yet to be confirmed -- and may never be confirmed -- but a number of news outlets reported that computer hard drives, CDs, DVDs and USB sticks were taken from the compound where bin Laden had been living. The compound reportedly had no telephone or Internet connection.
Footage aired on NBC on Tuesday showed what looked like damaged computers at the compound, while White House counter-terrorism spokesman John Brennan later said during a CNN interview that the U.S military had removed "whatever material we thought was appropriate and what was needed."
"We are trying to determine exactly the worth of whatever information we might have been able to pick up. This is a very important time to continue to prosecute this effort against al Qaeda," said Brennan.
It also was being reported that the data is being sifted through at a secret site in Afghanistan. "Hundreds of people are going through it now. It's going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable," an unnamed official was quoted by Politico, a Washington, D.C.-based news website. "They cleaned it out. Can you imagine what's on Osama bin Laden's hard drive?"
The site quoted an anonymous government source describing the data as "the motherlode of intelligence."
The "intelligence harvest" could prove "as important if not more important than the actual killing of Bin Laden," Council on Foreign Relations President and former State Department official Richard Haass was quoted telling The Star, a Canadian news site.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., security experts have assumed that al Qaeda operatives would use encryption to scramble data, possibly using specially written programs. This has never been confirmed after subsequent raids by the U.S. on locations of other al Qaeda leaders, but examples of bespoke encryption programs are known to exist. Such encryption would at the very least slow down access to the unscrambled data by U.S. intelligence in the event that secure keys had been used to guard it.
Bin Laden had been hunted since the attacks, which he directed, and was killed at the compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, during a raid by a team of Navy SEALS, which are a highly trained, special operations team.
Goat porn.
We’ve been given the impression of no internet connection to the home. So a guy would have to download at another destination, courier the DVD to this house, and upload.
My guess is that’s just random emails...mostly from supporters back in Saudi Arabia who handle money and funding. This might be the curious thing that we take out of this situation....and eventually go visit some guys in Saudi Arabia at night...disconnecting their brakes and letting fall into an accident of some type.
pictures of naked kids.
Tomorrow's headline...
No computers seized at bin Laden compound after all as Arabs begin to riot over...
If hundreds of people are going through this material, then how long will it be before there's a WikiLeaks dump?
WiFi
More goat droppings from the white house.
They want to say that they go much more intelligence from the raid on obl’s compound than President Bush got from the detainees.
Or ‘drowning in the desert’ sort of thing.
Pocky saw him some badass repo! Next time pay yo’ rent, jack.
Obama would still complain about the phones.
Spot the dish (and it's not the only one):
LOL...You’re right. Even without the pictures one would have to ask, why did OBL need enough computers to produce a treasure trove of data if there were no connection? Was he holding Solitaire tournaments?
Wikileaks will have them in a week.
What they did get was his kids. Kids need computers. Nothing takes up more computer power than games. So maybe the whole loot was a buch of computers with wargames on them...
That dish seems to be aimed mighty low.
Also, it seems that that area is somewhat surrounded by hills. My guess is that dish is pointed at a ground target. perhaps a wifi router in a location nearby. Given the dish’s size a USB wifi adapter at the focal point could be operated at a greatly reduced power level and still make a good connection up to a mile or so away (1 milliwatt or even far less.) Perhaps that is the method used at this compound to get internet access? The tight beam and low power would make it very tough for anyone to intercept the data traffic. I can’t think of any other reason an 8’ dish would be pointed at a hillside....well, perhaps remote data storage??
From other pics, and the “official” illustration, it would appear that there are several dishes, some of which are aimed more vertical. One that might be bigger than that 8’.
Also, aimed low - maybe straight at that military base (didn’t check). Which would of course have whatever links you might desire.
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