Posted on 01/15/2015 11:18:37 PM PST by Nachum
As French authorities continue their hunt for possible accomplices of the Islamist extremist gunmen who killed 17 people over three days in Paris last week, it has emerged two of the attackers were found in possession of paedo-pornographic material during an earlier anti-terrorism investigation.
In 2010, a police search of the computers of Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly revealed traces of child porn images the two men had stored and later erased, French media reported.
The two were under investigation for their alleged role in the botched attempt to free from prison Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, a jihadi serving a life sentence for a 1995 metro station bombing in Paris.
Detectives found five child porn photos on Coulibaly's laptop and another 37 on Kouachi's PC. Kouachi's stash included sickening pictures of young boys and girls involved in sexual acts with adults, Le Canard Enchaîné newspaper reported.
The findings were deemed as unrelated to the anti-terrorism probe and thus not investigated further.
The information was passed on to prosecutors dealing with sexual crimes but a case was never filed with a court.
However, last week's attacks shed a new light on the case, with some analysts suggesting that rather than being paedophiles, the gunmen might have used child porn websites as a secure means of communication to share other information.
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Yeah, sure! They never looked at any pictures!
Someone should check the photos for evidence of stenography.
It seems strange but using child porn sites to pass imbedded secret communications might be a good security check.
If someone gets pinched, check of the computer doesn’t point to terrorist activity and points the Keystone Kops in the wrong direction.
When child porn pops up on someone’s system, it usually makes the local news.
Thus the message goes out to everyone local that local terrorist has been tagged by police and is no longer safe to communicate with.
The rest of the network is protected.
I love it - they stopped investigating when they found the porn.
Careful - don’t want to accidentally find links to European politicians or elites !
“You’re not really here for the jihad, are you, fellas?”
You mean like my dad only bought playboy for the sports articles?
CC
Just following the example of mohammed
Yep, the ole hidden messages inside pictures routine. Using child porn is a pretty good ruse and a diversion, in and of itself!
Said by some guy who used to buy Playboy just for the articles.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/steganography-how-al-qaeda-hid-secret-documents-in-a-porn-video/
“Even if all the things contained in his law were fables in philosophy and errors in theology, even for those who do not possess the light of reason, the very manners (Islam) teaches are from a school of vicious bestialities. (Muhammad) did not prove his new sect with any motive, having neither supernatural miracles nor natural reasons, but solely the force of arms, violence, fictions, lies, and carnal license. It remains an impious, blasphemous, vicious cult, an innovention of the devil, and the direct way into the fires of hell. It does not even merit the name of being called a religion.”
-St. Juan de Ribera (d.1611), Archbishop of Valencia, missionary to Spanish Muslims, and organizer of the Muslim expulsions of 1609 from Spain. Quoted in several locations from his 1599 Catechismo para la Instruccion de los Nuevos Convertidos de los Moros
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
Very unPC, but so true. Mohammedanism is a scourge worse than the Plague.
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