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."

Comments

Interesting similarities!

[orionware]

Wow! At first I thought I might have been reading a game plan that the liberal left uses to combat the just and rightous war being waged against terrorism, but it was just an email from Bin Laden suggesting a tactic they use to fight the US.

--Conduct a media campaign to fight the enemy's publicity. The campaign should focus on the following important points:

a) Attempt to cause a rift between the American people and their government, by demonstrating the following to the Americans:

--That the U.S. government will lead them into further losses of money and lives.

--That the government is sacrificing the people to serve the interests of the rich, particularly the Jews.

--That the government is leading them to the war front to protect Israel and its security.

--America should withdraw from the current battle between Muslims and Jews.

This plan aims to create pressure from the American people on their government to stop its campaign against Afghanistan, on the grounds that the campaign will cause major losses to the American people.

--Imply that the campaign against Afghanistan will be responded to with revenge blows against America.

Re:Insights

[killjoe]

There is no need to even think about that. As long as the god of the israelis tell them to take the land that belongs to other people there will be war in the middle east.

Re:Insights

[sql*kitten]

The two quotes that you made clearly show that America has been doing something wrong in the eyes of the terrorists.

You mean, allowing its women to walk around without burqas? Allowing people to practice any religions that they want to? NOT killing Jews simply because they are Jewish?

The problems the terrorists have with us are not socioeconomic, they are purely ideological. There is NOTHING we can do that would satisfy them, short of becoming exactly like them.

Re:TO: American Liberal Left

[Anonymous Coward]

Silly trolls, stereotyping and over generalizing.

But really, you are so right. The liberals in the U.S. are the intolerant ones. They really dispise those who aren't rich, caucasian, Christian, and heterosexual.

Oh wait, that might more accurately describe conservatives?

And you're right, it's the liberals who spearheaded this war in Iraq, a war that took resources AWAY from Afghanistan.

Or was it the conservatives?

Again, those god-forsaken liberals are the ones who cover up corrupt revolving-door government contracts, alienate our oldest allies, reject international environmental agreements, and refer to entire countries as "EVIL."

Or was that also the conservatives?

Geez, I just can't seem to remember. I guess I'll just watch some more television. It always makes me happy.

Genghis Khan

[dspeyer]

It's a little hard to look these things up, but AFAIK the mongols were not particularly repressed about sex. I think they killed even more civillians in conquering Iraq than the U.S. did (though the American figure is still climing). That was about 700 years ago. There's probably more recent examples.

How did Pol Pot feal about sex?

What A Joke!

[Master of Transhuman]

Read this from the article:

The letter goes on to cite mid-twentieth-century articles from, among other sources, Science, The Journal of Immunology, and The New England Journal of Medicine, and lists the names of such books as Tomorrow's Weapons (1964), Peace or Pestilence (1949), and Chemical Warfare (1921).

THIS is where Al Qaeda gets his bioweapons info?

Gimme a fucking break!

And these guys are supposed to be getting suitcase nukes and the like?

Bullshit.

This is amateur night at its worst. It makes my bank robberies look high-tech.

No wonder they used box cutters to hijack the 9/11 planes - and why they were so easily used as "patsies" to do that job so the neocons could have their "terrorist Pearl Harbor" as desired in the PNAC documents.

More than ever, I am convinced just by this one article that Mossad was behind 9/11 all the way.
It was no accident that Mossad agents were arrested filming the collapse of the towers or that Mossad agents were following the 9/11 operators around for months before the attack.

You don't need any of these stupid "remote control airplane" conspiracy theories to explain 9/11. It was a simple "false flag"/agent-provocateur operation. Mossad uses its infiltrators to get Al Qaeda to go with the plan. Then they make sure - with CIA help - Al Qaeda operators get whatever they need - including flight training from a school in Florida with connections to the drug trade, the DEA and the CIA. Then the boys at the top conveniently ignore FBI and CIA reports from the field that something is up - as proven by Crowly and Edmonds' testimonies. That's all you need to make it happen.

The US and Israeli governments KNEW 9/11 was going to happen - because they set it up. Classic "Reichstag fire" incident.

Couldn't be more obvious if you threw one of the hijacker's passports on the wreckage...

Oh, wait...