The CIA will publish 321 gigabytes of personal files of bin Laden

The CIA will publish 321 gigabytes of personal files of bin Laden

The Central intelligence Agency posted on its website, the cache files received from the personal computer and also other devices of Osama bin Laden, was found by the military on 2 may 2011 in Abbottabad during the RAID in which the owner of the material has been neutralized. 470 000 files include documents, images, videos and audio recordings, including propaganda, the plans of «al-Qaeda» homemade videos about son bin Laden Hazm, and the «drafts» propaganda video.

On the website of the intelligence services placed a large number of warnings regarding the content of the uploaded documents:

The CIA will publish 321 gigabytes of personal files of bin Laden

«Materials from this collection may be offensive and/or hard to view. Viewing children is prohibited. Before opening the files, please note that this material was seized from a terrorist organization and there is no absolute guarantee that all malware was removed.»

The file also contains personal correspondence between bin Laden, his family and other leaders of al-Qaeda. Materials include copies of Newspapers, magazines and textbooks, images of Wikipedia — for example, a «Collapse of Latin Greece, 1350», showing the influence of Italian and Catalan crusaders.

As stated by the representative of the FBI, the collection of materials is not included «some files that can compromise the security of the country, pornography, and material protected by copyright, as well as empty, corrupted, or duplicate files.»

At the disposal of the CIA is also a PDF file with 100 megabytes of scans of a personal journal of Osama bin Laden. However, this document has not been translated yet from Arabic.

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