CIA Looks for New Clues on Al Qaeda Trail, Reviews Evidence From Bin Laden Compound

FOX NEWS ^ | 05/02/2011 | foxnews.com

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

AP

Vehicles are parked inside the compound of a house where it is believed Usama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 2. Usama bin Laden's body sank to the bottom of the Arabian Sea Monday morning after he was buried in accordance with Islamic practice.

But while his death marked the end of one counterterror mission -- a big one -- it could unlock new clues as intelligence analysts start to review the materials captured at bin Laden's Pakistan compound during the raid.

Along with bin Laden's body, electronics and hard drives were seized by U.S. forces following the firefight Sunday afternoon.

They have started to arrive at the CIA's Virginia headquarters, officials said. They described the cache as a "volume of materials" that will be "exploited and analyzed" at CIA headquarters.

It's unclear what kinds of information the files might contain. Intelligence officials spent years tracking the threads of information that eventually led them to the courier that led them to bin Laden's compound. But officials have said the successful mission Sunday is only one step in the ongoing fight against Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

[FixitGuy]

Waterbed. Hence, no top mattress.

Waterbead.....Waterboard....How funny!

[FixitGuy]

Waterbed. Hence, no top mattress.

Waterbed.....Waterboard....How funny!

[Deaf Smith]

What’s on second.

[oldsicilian]

Thanks, Johniegrad. Best laugh I’ve had all day.

[kcvl]

His legs must have hung off that bed. It doesn’t look long enough for a six foot terrorist dude.

[battletank]

WHOA! If THAT is all true...the S is going to HTF pronto!

[AFreeBird]

I share your concern regarding the possibility of an override of the CoC, or more specifically in this case, the CiC.

But there is no way in Hell, that after almost ten years of hunting that SOB, and after all the lives lost, those we know about and those we don’t, that they were going to let OBL slip through their fingers because we have a pantywaist Muslim loving CiC.

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But Zero goong to take full credit for the kill, regardless of the tactics employed, and the people who put the wheels in motion; which at the time WAS a legitiment CiC.

So in that regard, they were carrying out orders.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Next will come the retaliatory attack. Probably in a foreign country.

[meatloaf]

You have to admit when you’re used to sleeping with livestock, the place is a step up. I hope no four legged animals were harmed in that raid. Perhaps PETA should investigate the cruelty of feeding Osama to sharks. The poor sharks were victimized.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks PSYCHO-FREEP.

Usama bin Laden's body sank to the bottom of the Arabian Sea Monday morning after he was buried in accordance with Islamic practice... Along with bin Laden's body, electronics and hard drives were seized by U.S. forces following the firefight Sunday afternoon.

The carcass should have been ground up and used as pig food. So should the carcass of the son who was killed at the scene, and the bodies of the other combatants.

It's a good pretext to pull the plug on Pakistan. Instead, the US mission will, in accordance to Barry's expressed wishes, be expanded from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Both "countries" should be carved up into autonomous ethnic enclaves, and the entire thing federated. Then the US should buy as much opium as they can produce (99% for immediate destruction) in order to undermine the Taliban. The Talis don't like opium growing, but they'd find hot lead as the consequence of trying to stop any armed Afghan farmer from growing it.

[piasa]

Back in November 2008 a letter to Iran’s leaders from AQ’s
Zawahiri was intercepted thanking Iran for helping AQ get a foothold in Yemen after they had been forced out of Iraq, and thanking Iran for financial assistance in an attack on the US embassy there in 2008.

[TheOldLady]

Sigh. If only you were in charge.