Documents reveal al Qaeda's future strategies
Source: CNN
On May 16 last year, a 22-year-old Austrian named Maqsood Lodin was being questioned by police in Berlin. He had recently returned from Pakistan via Budapest, Hungary, and then traveled overland to Germany. His interrogators were surprised to find that hidden in his underpants were a digital storage device and memory cards.
Buried inside them was a pornographic video called "Kick Ass" -- and a file marked "Sexy Tanja."
Several weeks later, after laborious efforts to crack a password and software to make the file almost invisible, German investigators discovered encoded inside the actual video a treasure trove of intelligence -- more than 100 al Qaeda documents that included an inside track on some of the terror group's most audacious plots and a road map for future operations.
Future plots include the idea of seizing 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. Ten gunmen killed 164 people in that three-day rampage.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/al-qaeda-documents-future/index.html
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)shit like this we would be out of the recession in no time. guest the cia/nsa will continue to read my emails for the foreseeable future.
FedUp_Queer
(975 posts)This whole "al Qaeda" thing strikes me as nothing but pure fiction. Am I really to understand a group of cave-dwellers numbering about none in Afghanistan is really that dangerous? This strikes me as nothing more than complete BS to scare-monger and put more money in the pockets of the military/law enforcement industrial complex.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)of the Pakistani government, military and ISI. That is what makes them so dangerous.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)The Mumbai attacks were a dress rehearsal for attacks in Europe and the US, just as the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight in 2000 was a dress rehearsal for 9/11.
FedUp_Queer
(975 posts)President Bush? Is that you? Welcome to DU.
independentpiney
(1,510 posts)FedUp_Queer
(975 posts)but that's garbage. Terrorism is a pure myth...which is why there is no definition in international law.
independentpiney
(1,510 posts)How would you describe the Mumbai attacks and other ISI backed actions in India ?
FedUp_Queer
(975 posts)I would describe them as killings (maybe murder); perhaps acts of war, though only states can commit acts of war. "Terrorism" is too subjective. Certainly, the American colonists, for instance, were "terrorists" to the Crown.
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Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Journeyman
(15,036 posts)of carrying out another mass-casualty attack."
So which is it? Or is it all just bullshit, as so many of us have asserted for so very long?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002619475
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/us-usa-alqaeda-idUSBRE83Q1BX20120427
As far as I'm concerned, they should just give us back the rights and privileges they stole from us and keep their worthless opinions to themselves.
FedUp_Queer
(975 posts)I have to agree with you. I mean really? Pakistan? I suspect the Mumbai bombing had more to do with Pakistan and India just hating each other than anything else. My God, I'm just so tired of this "be afraid" bullshit. I'm not afraid. I refuse to be afraid. It's all a big damn farce, hoax or whatever you want to call it. Someone is making money off this fear...a lot of money. The fact is that the "turr-rists" have already won anyway. Why do you think I can almost never find a mailbox? Why do the cops reserve the right to randomly search anyone's bags on the subway here in NYC? Because the "turr-rists" might put a bomb in the mail box? Because a "turr-rist" might bring a bomb on the subway in a big, conspicuous bag? Come the hell on. Someone is making money off this.