Bin Laden files contained pornography

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON - In what may be an attempt to completely destroy Osama bi Laden's image, US official claimed Friday that the big cache of computer files taken from OBLs compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos. The officials, who were not named, would not say whether there was evidence that bin Laden or the other men living in the house had acquired or viewed the material, according to a dispatch in The New York Times. The discovery of the pornography may not be surprising in a collection of five computers, 10 hard drives and dozens of thumb drives and CDs whose age and past ownership is not known, the newspaper said. In a 2002 letter to the American people, bin Laden denounced American culture for its exploitation of womens bodies in dress, advertising and popular culture. Your nation exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools, calling upon customers to purchase them, he wrote. A team of intelligence analysts under the CIAs direction has been working to review the material seized from bin Ladens house in Abbottabad by the Navy Seal team that killed him. Officials have said the material shows that bin Laden was making notes about new ways to attack the United States and sending instructions by courier to subordinates and Qaeda affiliates. Asked about the contents in an interview with Bloomberg Television, US Attorney General Eric Holder. said, Im not sure we have any plot that the intelligence review had found. On the other hand, he did seem to have a goal around the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, Holder said. Certainly, he wanted to harm and was in the advanced operational stage of pulling the levers in the Al Qaeda organization. Meanwhile, National security adviser Tom Donilon says the death of bin Laden shows US "friends and adversaries we do what we say we will do." Speaking Friday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Donilon described the plan to find and kill bin Laden, praising President Barack Obama for what he called a "quintessentially presidential decision." "The quiet and determined pursuit of bin Laden is not the only example of how President Obama matches his words with action," Donilon said. "Our action sent a powerful message for America's friends and adversaries: We do what we say we will do. It is a message of persistence, determination, and dedication." Donilon said US determination to do "what it says it is going to do" cuts across "presidencies and parties." In praising Obama's handling of the bin Laden operation, Donilon called the president's decision-making process "intensely rigorous - he challenged assumptions and pushed on the analysis and the intelligence to make sure we actually knew what we thought we knew." He also praised the military personnel who carried out the operation and called it "one of the great achievements in the history of the intelligence community." "It was a success that was years in the making - across three US administrations - which is why the president's first two phone calls once our helicopters were out of harm's way were to Presidents (George W.) Bush and (Bill) Clinton. Donilon said Obama's propensity for matching words with action will also be "the case with respect to Iran." "From his first days in office, he has made clear to Iran that it has a choice: it can act to restore the confidence of the international community in the purposes of its nuclear program by fully complying with the (International Atomic Energy Agency) and UN Security Council resolutions, or it can continue to shirk its international obligations, which will only increase its isolation and the consequences for the regime. There is no escaping or evading that choice."

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