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Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive
prostoalex writes "Alan Cullison covered the events in Afghanistan for Wall Street Journal in late 2001. On the day that Kabul fell Cullison was offered to buy a bunch of computers from a local al-Qaeda office. For $1100 Cullison purchased an IBM desktop and a Compaq laptop. Before giving the hard drives to CIA agents in Afghanistan, Cullison copied the contents and shares some of the electronic messages in September's Atlantic Monthly. Interesting insight on al-Qaeda's financial operations and their merger with Taliban movement. The letters include e-mail messages from Osama bin Laden himself."
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-- "I'm not a religious man, but if you're up there, save me Superman..."
Well, they obviously had no problem using US planes to crash into US buildings designed by a Japanese architect and inhabited by members of over 90 nations and almost all world religons...
But seriously, leaders rerely ever practice what they preach. They may tell you that US technology is bad(though everything but the software was manuractured, and possibly even designed abroad by godless Chinese, and the software had significant contributions from followers of Hinduism, not exactly Islam's ally), but they will use it anyway. Look at any dictator, you think Kim jong Il suffers like his people do? Claims to be a worker's paradise, but only the party elite are allowed to have cars...