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Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data
Politico ^ | 5/2/11 | MIKE ALLEN

Posted on 05/02/2011 5:12:39 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa

The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”

The special operations forces grabbed personal computers, thumb drives and electronic equipment during the lightning raid that killed bin Laden, officials told POLITICO.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: computer; intel; obltermination; osama
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I thought they were reporting he had no data connection...
1 posted on 05/02/2011 5:12:41 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa
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To: Keith in Iowa
I thought they were reporting he had no data connection...

Maybe he was stealing the neighboring military's base's wi-fi signal...

2 posted on 05/02/2011 5:14:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: Keith in Iowa

He may not have had an internet connection, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t store information on a computer.


3 posted on 05/02/2011 5:15:18 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: Keith in Iowa

You can operate a computer without being connected to a network.


4 posted on 05/02/2011 5:16:38 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Yes, and with his command of English he became the Identity behind numerous FREEPER TROLLS.

Well, that'll be the end of that.

5 posted on 05/02/2011 5:17:27 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: GAB-1955

>>>You can operate a computer without being connected to a network.

Thank you Capt. Obvious.


6 posted on 05/02/2011 5:17:36 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: Keith in Iowa
Obama and Michelle's SAT scores are on that flash drive.


7 posted on 05/02/2011 5:18:17 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Keith in Iowa

They’ve had less than a day to analyze all this equipment and data and they are all ready claiming they hit the mother lode?

Also, they are going to release the video of his burial at sea. What are they going to show? A body, completely wrapped in white head to toe, sliding off a ramp into the water. This proves what?

Its not that I don’t believe he’s dead. I do. Its just that the more I read the more I doubt the entirety of the events.


8 posted on 05/02/2011 5:19:32 PM PDT by mark3681
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To: Keith in Iowa
Just heard on Bill O'R that the Republicans were excluded from this operation...they had NO FREAKIN CLUE!! I HATE THE Communist SOB'S!
9 posted on 05/02/2011 5:21:38 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Keith in Iowa

THIS is why is was better to use a Special Ops team rather than use an air strike. With Bin Laden confirmed gone (as in room temperature), the head of the snake is killed. With the intel gathered by the Special Ops, the snake will have a hard time growing a new head, and will more likely die.


10 posted on 05/02/2011 5:22:13 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (All Hail the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

It’s full of goat porn and malware.


11 posted on 05/02/2011 5:22:49 PM PDT by edpc (Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

I laugh when they describe that dump as a luxury million doolar mansion.


12 posted on 05/02/2011 5:23:00 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Keith in Iowa

Osama was taken out b/c he had a copy of the real BC. /sarc


13 posted on 05/02/2011 5:24:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Maybe the neighboring military base was allowing him to use their wi-fi signal.


14 posted on 05/02/2011 5:25:17 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Keith in Iowa

I had also read somewhere that there was no electricity there.. hmm

Bikk


15 posted on 05/02/2011 5:25:39 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Keith in Iowa

This is excellent!
I hope they round up a ton of terrorists.


16 posted on 05/02/2011 5:26:41 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1 .00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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I thought they were reporting he had no data connection...

It waas - 'tangled webs"?

17 posted on 05/02/2011 5:27:09 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("We stand together or we fall apart" mt)
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To: SkyPilot

Yep, all ZEROES and ONES

LOL

I crack myself up ...


18 posted on 05/02/2011 5:28:15 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: mowowie

When you spend your life in either a mud brick hut or a tent, even a double wide might be considered a luxury mansion. ;-)


19 posted on 05/02/2011 5:29:41 PM PDT by doc1019 (Palin/Bachmann, unbeatable.)
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To: Keith in Iowa
I can imagine what types of computing devices they have in Pakistan and the all the floppy disks that the data is stored on.


20 posted on 05/02/2011 5:29:42 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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