Well, well, well… what have we here? Seems U.S. officials have found many things while searching Osama bin Laden’s million-dollar Abbottabad hideout. And what have they found most recently? Yep. Porn.
“The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically
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Osama bin Laden was a prolific user of email for many years, evading the global intelligence community by using simple, cheap tech: USB sticks.
His system depended on couriers who would use internet cafes, checking in to his anonymized email accounts and copying incoming messages to a simple USB memory stick.
They’d take he stick …
One of the most iconic photographs to come out of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout has turned out to be the one portraying President Obama and his national security team as they “receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House,” according to the photo’s caption on Flickr.
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Politico is reporting that the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound over the weekend has resulted in the seizure of several computer hard drives and other data storage devices.
An official referred to the find as “the mother lode of intelligence,” adding, “It’s going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable.”
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Top tip, people: when some dude on the internet says he has pix or video of bin Laden being shot, don’t believe him.
Scammers and spammers have jumped on the news, seeing the perfect opportunity to lure the gullible into a trap. Fake links and pics have started popping up all over the web and on social networks.
A lot of internet …
At the news that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces, Twitter erupted with posts.
The news itself has roots in the microblog, as one of the first public declarations of bin Laden’s death was pushed out in under 140 characters by Navy Reserve intel officer Keith Urbahn. “So I’m told by a reputable person …
Back in 2006, Frank Miller–the cartoonist behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, as well as 300 and Sin City–announced that he would be writing and drawing a graphic novel for DC Comics called Holy Terror, in which Batman would take on al-Qaeda and face Osama bin Laden. (“Superman punched out Hitler,” he said at the time. “So did …
Most expected Osama bin Laden’s death — if he were to be caught at all — to come at the hands of a stealthy predator drone blast. But when details began emerging that a super-elite team of military operatives infiltrated the terrorist leader’s high-walled compound in Pakistan, the nation’s imagination became ensnared by action-hero …
As news of Osama bin Laden’s death began rippling its way through various news pipes late last night, many were surprised to learn that the ever-elusive terrorist leader had been holed up not in a far-flung, desolate cave, but in a nice house in a well-to-do suburb outside of Islamabad.
I’d been asleep when the news broke last night …
Osama bin Laden’s last stand unfolded in a barbed wire mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan. According to Google Maps, this is where the raid happened.
Here’s a recount from TIME’s Battleland blog, which has an excellent piece on how exactly the raid went down:
U.S. intelligence had learned that bin Laden might be holed up in a
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