OPINION: Any researcher/analyst/investigator worth his or her salt is not surprised by the jihad-porn connection.
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BLOG:
http://reportonarrakis.blogspot.com/2008/10/link-between-child-porn-and-terrorism.html
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008
“Link between child porn and terrorism”
SNIPPET: “In fact, one of the most popular google search terms that directs users to this site is ‘hijab sex’. Most of the users entering this search term are from Turkey.”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023137.php
(TIMES ONLINE co.uk)
October 17, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain.
Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Concerns have already been expressed at Cabinet minister level about the risk of vulnerable Muslim youths being exploited by older men.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “It is not clear whether the terrorists were more interested in the material for personal gratification or were drawn to child porn networks as a secure means of sending messages. In one case fewer than a dozen images were found; in another, 40,000.
British security sources confirmed that such a link had been discovered in several cases. They noted the contradiction between people supposedly devoted to theocracy and Islamic fundamentalism and their use of child pornography. “It shows that these people are very confused,” a source said. “Here they are hating Western decadence but actually making use of it and finding that they enjoy this stuff.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/steganography
stepping back in time...
SNIPPET - QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/907970/posts
Terrorists’ Twin Tower Images, Secret Porn Messages
ABC News ^ | 5/8/03
Posted on May 8, 2003 9:52:03 AM PDT by areafiftyone
ROME, May 8 — Investigators analyzing computers seized from an Italian mosque say they have uncovered images of the twin towers that were downloaded just days before the 9/11 attacks, as well as a trove of pornographic photos they believe were used to conceal coded messages.
On Sept. 4, 2001, according to investigators, pictures of the World Trade Center were saved as temporary files on one of the computers at the Via Quaranta mosque in Milan — the mosque frequented by Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed, also known as Abu Saleh, an Egyptian currently on trial in absentia in Milan on charges of international terrorism.
Court documents from the ongoing Milan trial, cited by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, say that police discovered images of the World Trade Center along with numerous files that contained images downloaded from the Internet of political leaders such as President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, as well as large quantities of pornographic material, also taken from the Internet.
The images, investigators said, had been manipulated — their colors modified — before being sent back onto the Web.
Police believe this was one of the ways that al Qaeda cell members communicated, encoding, in many instances, pornographic images that were were traded back and forth, an investigative source confirmed.
The practice is known as steganography.