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Porno-archive found in bin Ladenâ€™s compound

14 May 2011 07:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. U.S. commandos who raided Osama bin Laden’s compound also recovered a "fairly extensive" stash of pornography, including videos, APA reports with reference to Reuters.
The news agency quotes unidentified current and former U.S. officials as saying it is unclear where in the sprawling compound the material was found and it is unclear who had been viewing it. The officials specifically say they do not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials, Reuters reports.
Despite lack of direct access to the Internet, Osama bin Laden kept up regular email contacts with the outside world using thumb drives and trusted couriers, the Associated Press reports.
The AP, quoting a counterterrorism official, among others, says bin Laden would type a message on his computer, then save it on a thumb drive. A courier would then take the drive to a distant Internet cafÃ©, where he would both send the email and download messages for bin Laden. Navy SEALs hauled away roughly 100 flash memory drives after they killed bin Laden, and officials said they appear to archive the back-and-forth communication between bin Laden and his associates around the world. The cache of electronic documents is so large the government has enlisted Arabic speakers from around the intelligence community to pore over it.