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German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn
According to CNN, which credits Hamburg-based newspaper Die Zeit, German investigators have uncovered a trove of more than 100 Al Qaeda documents recovered from a "digital storage device" (and memory cards) which were found hidden in the underpants of Austrian citizen Maqsood Lodin, who had recently traveled to Pakistan. The documents "included an inside track on some of the terror group's most audacious plots and a road map for future operations." Among these future plots: "[S]eizing cruise ships and carrying out attacks in Europe similar to the gun attacks by Pakistani militants that paralyzed the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008." The documents were reportedly neither in plain view nor simply encrypted, but instead steganographically embedded in a pornographic video.
I'm okay with the Americans getting a blood nose; the West is a learning culture, and the US will emerge leaner, meaner, fitter and stronger.
The Islamic world is anything but. All they'll do is throw toddler temper tantrums, and just blame Whitey and the Jews, as always.
This isn't some random dude who got nabbed because something incriminating got planted on his laptop, "in plain sight" to be found by random no-thought-required screening.
Challenge accepted.
He was concealing it because he knew it would get him in trouble with security agents if found,
Pornography is illegal in Pakistan, the country he just arrived from. It makes sense he couldn't want it to be found while going through security there.
and it was found because he and his companion "...were on a watch list, and when they handed over documents at a European border crossing, their names registered with counterterrorism agencies. ..
Everyone on a terrorist watch list is a convicted terrorist, having been tried in an open court, given a chance to provide evidence proving his innocence, etc. My previous sentence is a lie.
Ocak is also charged with helping to form a group called the German Taliban Mujahedeen,
Charged is not convicted anymore than suspicion equivocates to guilt.
Prosecutors believe the pair met at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan's tribal territories and were sent back to Europe to recruit a network of suicide bombers." (from TFA)
I believe I was touched by a flying spaghetti monster while sleeping last night. Normally, this wouldn't be significant, but had I been a Prosecutor, you'd be in trouble right now.
While your clever strategy is certainly possible, and can be effective at disrupting the kind of security theater that the TSA performs, that's not what's happening here
I don't consider deductive reasoning skills to be particularly clever, just rare.
This is an example of good old-fashioned investigative, targeted counter-espionage working.
The evidence presented does not exceed the standard of reasonable doubt. It is reasonable suspicion only.
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Q: how do you get a muslim woman pregnant?
A: cum on her shoes and let the flies do the work.
Child pornography results in long prison sentences and sex offender list status for anyone caught possessing it.
This makes child pornography a virus because being infected by it damages whoever is hosting it. It's only a virus because the legal system treats it like a virus. Honestly it's a victimless crime to possess anything, and it's a thought crime to arrest people for possession of information, but it's America and parents, religious people and others in society typically are irrational. As a result there are victimless crimes.
All pornography is treated like child porn in some places so some societies treat it all like a virus. Honestly the USA cannot be critical of censorship in other countries when we have our own passions that we enforce with censorship and thought control enforcement. Just by making this post I'm expecting to be condemned by an emotional parent feeling either fear for their children or intense anger that I would post this.
At the end of the day if the law doesn't protect people and/or property, and if there isn't victim, it should not be a crime. That's pure logic, accept.