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Pornography Is Found in Bin Laden Compound Files, U.S. Officials Say
nytimes ^ | May 13, 2011 | Scott Shane

Posted on 05/13/2011 8:16:13 PM PDT by Beowulf9

WASHINGTON — The enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin Laden’s compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos, American officials said on Friday, adding a discordant note to the public image of the Islamist militant who long denounced the West for its lax sexual mores. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity about classified material, would not say whether there was evidence that Bin Laden or the other men living in the house had acquired or viewed the material. The discovery of the pornography, first reported by Reuters, may not be surprising in a collection of five computers, 10 hard drives and dozens of thumb drives and CDs whose age and past ownership is not known.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladin; islam; pornography
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But the disclosure could fuel accusations of hypocrisy against the founder of Al Qaeda, who was 54 and lived with three wives at the time of his death, and will be welcomed by counterterrorism officials because it could tarnish his legacy and erode the appeal of his brand of religious extremism.

In a 2002 “letter to the American people,” Bin Laden denounced American culture for its exploitation of women’s bodies in dress, advertising and popular culture.

1 posted on 05/13/2011 8:16:22 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

For some odd reason I have difficulty believing this.


2 posted on 05/13/2011 8:19:11 PM PDT by Rytwyng (I'm still fond of the United States. I just can't find it. -- Fred Reed)
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To: Beowulf9

This invites two questions.

First, will a bunch of senators run off to Langley to the CIA room where they can sit at a private table (with tissues) and view the bin Laden lusty videos? I’m guessing most will.

Second, what kind of lusty videos are we talking about? Large Texas-sized gals? Mexican midgets? Thai guys dressed as women? It’s going to hurt the case of recruiting once this gets out that they were watching mostly blondes from Florida. Surely the CIA would not put out a listing of the videos.


3 posted on 05/13/2011 8:21:19 PM PDT by pepsionice
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4 posted on 05/13/2011 8:21:59 PM PDT by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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CIA unit's wacky idea: Depict Saddam as gay

The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former CIA officers recalled, chuckling at the memory. The actors were drawn from “some of us darker-skinned employees,” he said.

5 posted on 05/13/2011 8:22:02 PM PDT by Palter (If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
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To: Beowulf9

Just wait till his wive(s) find out.


6 posted on 05/13/2011 8:22:08 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: Rytwyng

You never know. It could of been images of mostly naked women with suicide bomber vests on. Maybe he liked the excitement of the unknown. lol. Will she go off or not?


7 posted on 05/13/2011 8:23:29 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Beowulf9

Maybe we find what Bubba did for cigars,
binny will do for stick dynamite


8 posted on 05/13/2011 8:27:28 PM PDT by daku
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First photos of muslim Terrorist PORN released!


9 posted on 05/13/2011 8:29:00 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Every day we now throw away things people will kill for after TEOTWAWKI)
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To: Rytwyng

Could it be that the osama take out didnot get the response they were loking for, like in the retaliatory attack on the US so they threw in this to try to inflame the muzzies in to an attack? just saying, odd.


10 posted on 05/13/2011 8:30:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Beowulf9

He was doing research.


11 posted on 05/13/2011 8:31:58 PM PDT by CalinectesSapidus
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To: Rytwyng
For some odd reason I have difficulty believing this.

Well, the WH did their internet research and found out that the public 'knew' OBL would have porn on his computer and 'expected' it to be announced, so maybe they are just telling the public what they think the public wants to hear.

Which is where I would lay my money, regardless to whether there was or was not any porn.

12 posted on 05/13/2011 8:32:08 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Beowulf9

I hope this is just a ploy by the our counter terrorism teams. I am just tired of hearing anything about this mission. This should be all top secret stuff that comes out 50 years from now in some freedom of information act disclosure. Not now.


13 posted on 05/13/2011 8:32:41 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Beowulf9

I wonder how much of this is true anymore? Next it will be reported he had a Confederate flag hanging in his bedroom.


14 posted on 05/13/2011 8:35:22 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (r e p e n t)
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To: Brandonmark

Very baaaaahd.


15 posted on 05/13/2011 8:38:15 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Beowulf9

Porno found? Arrest him!


16 posted on 05/13/2011 8:39:19 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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Just wait til they find his hidden stash of Carpenters and Barry Manilow tapes...


17 posted on 05/13/2011 8:48:00 PM PDT by bigbob
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Why am I not shocked. Remember back to the 9-11 terrorist, they had a night of debauchery and strippers before they headed on their final mission.
18 posted on 05/13/2011 8:49:06 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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“For some odd reason I have difficulty believing this.”

I never considered that aspect, and it might be a smear but on the other hand a lot of mental patients have a thing for pornography, in the extreme.


19 posted on 05/13/2011 8:50:42 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Let me guess: The latest “Goats Gone Wild”


20 posted on 05/13/2011 8:52:34 PM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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