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| The bin Laden library the U.S. government doesn't want you to see: The pron stash. |
| 2015-05-22 |
| Newly declassified documents from the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 have revealed the late al-Qaeda leader's remarkable English-language library, including books by Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward and even 9/11 conspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin. Yet the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which released the files on Wednesday, has not released all the material found in the compound. In fact, there's a rather notorious stash that the U.S. government apparently doesn't want you to see: a cache of pronography. "We have no plans to release that at this point in time," Brian Hale, a spokesman for the DNI, told the Telegraph's Raf Sanchez. "Due to the nature of the content the decision was made not to release it." The Guardian was also told that the pronographic material would not be released. Reports that pronographic material was found in the compound were first published by the news agency Reuters on May 13, 2011, just weeks after a U.S. military raid on the site left the al-Qaeda leader dead. Unnamed officials told Reuters that the pronography was modern and the collection extensive. Officials said it was unclear how it came to be in the hideout, which had no Internet connection. Reuters also reported that the officials were unsure about the precise location where the material was found or who might have been viewing it. U.S. officials have said that 22 people had been living in the compound, including a number of adult males. U.S. officials later confirmed that they had discovered pronography in the compound. Although it has never been clear whether bin Laden had been viewing the pronography, the reports of adult videos in his compound prompted a flurry of mockery from the likes of the New York Post and Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," with some suggesting that the reports had been leaked to make bin Laden look hypocritical. (He had criticized the United States' culture as sexualized in a 2002 "letter to America"). Some experts pointed out that finding pronography on jihadists' computers had become common by 2011, however, and CNN later reported on a separate case in which al-Qaeda had encoded pronographic movie files with secret documents. IMHO, they don't want to release it because: 1) They believe it will make people go look for it and make it harder to separate the digital wheat from the chaff when trying to find people who possess it. 2) More likely, given the sexually-repressed nature of the jihadist sub-moron, there was lots of way-underage stuff there. It doesn't make sense that Al Qaeda would have their minions caught with something that would automatically send them to jail, suggesting that UBL (Rot in Hell) just enjoyed that kind of thing. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #6 "Pron", or TRON??? As for MOnica, IIRC I believe I read she's been offered US!1.0Milyuhn or more for "the Dress"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-05-22 19:45 |
| #5 Or does he have his own server? At one time he did; name of Monica... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-05-22 16:43 |
| #4 Wasn't there a Pron site called Whitehouse.com or something. Caused quite a stink when people would mistype whitehouse.gov. Wasn't Bill president at about the same time? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-05-22 16:12 |
| #3 I understand that William Clinton is still reviewing the stash for hidden messages and such. He should be done by 2018. Speaking of Billy, what did he have hidden on that secret server in the basement? Or does he have his own server? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-05-22 14:47 |
| #2 I don't want to see it either. I'm not into goat and camel pr0n. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-05-22 14:40 |
| #1 2) More likely, given the sexually-repressed nature of the jihadist sub-moron, there was lots of way-underage stuff there. It doesn't make sense that Al Qaeda would have their minions caught with something that would automatically send them to jail, suggesting that UBL (Rot in Hell) just enjoyed that kind of thing. The man grew up in a Muslim household in Saudi Arabia. The rules are different. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-22 14:38 |