Porn video reveals Al Qaeda planns to hijack cruise ships and execute passengers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137848/Porn-video-reveals-Al-Qaeda-planns-hijack-cruise-ships-execute-passengers.html

Al Qaeda planned to hijack cruise ships and post footage of passengers being executed online to pressurise governments to release particular prisoners, it has been revealed.

Documents embedded inside a pornographic movie, on a memory disc, show how the terror network wanted to dress tourists up in Guantanamo Bay-style orange jumpsuits before murdering them.

The audacious plan is just one of several plots discovered by investigators who decrypted the hardware found in the underpants of a suspected terrorist arrested in Berlin last year.

The cache of 141 documents, described as 'pure gold' by intelligence agencies, also details how the network wanted to conduct a Mumbai-style attack - where ten gunmen killed 164 people in a three-day rampage in 2008 - in Europe.

And it reveals the organisation is using a 'twin-track strategy' - using 'low-cost, low-tech attacks' to keep security services preoccupied as other 'operatives' plan large-scale 9/11 type atrocities.

The documents, seized by German intelligence operatives in the days following Osama Bin Laden's death last year, reveal an 'extraordinarily detailed insight into the inner workings of Al Qaeda'.

CNN reports how Al Qaeda's hand in the London 7/7 and attempted 7/21 bomb plots emerges for the first time with a highly detailed account from cell leader Rashid Rauf.

CNN's Nic Robertson said: 'These documents show that London was extremely lucky on 7/21.

Robertson added: 'These documents lay open Al Qaeda’s inner workings. They prove the links between some of its highest profile plots and attacks, and show how it's trying to cope with the constant pressure from military and intelligence operations against it.'

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1171104--cruise-ship-hijackings-obama-assassination-among-al-qaeda-s-plans-reports?bn=1

Meanwhile, a former U.S. government official said assassinating U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Gen. David Petraeus were on bin Laden’s “wish list.”

Michael Leiter also told NBC’s Today show the assassinations weren’t bin Laden’s highest priority: that would have been another attack on the massive scale of Sept. 11, 2001.

That supports disclosures from captured documents published on the weekend by the Washington Post, which painted bin Laden as a beleaguered, fretful CEO of a global terrorist organization slipping from his grasp.

Bin Laden had become obsessed with the ideological purity of his terrorist mission, the Post said: killing innocent Muslims was wrong, killing Westerners was permissible.

Bin Laden was also grooming new factions, such as Nigeria’s Boko Haram, to take up the ideological cause and terrorist attacks, the newspaper said.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120502/news/705029969/

A few months before Osama bin Laden's death, websites linked to al-Qaida ran excited commentary about a proposed new killing machine dubbed the “human lawn mower.” The idea was to attach rotating blades to the front of a pickup truck and drive the contraption into crowds.

While some jihadists admired the idea, one graying veteran of the terrorist movement took a stand against it. That was bin Laden himself, by then living out his twilight years in a Pakistani villa with ample time to think about his legacy. The man who famously ordered jetliners flown into skyscrapers drew the line at cutting down humans like weeds.

Although some insights from the documents have been revealed over the past year, new excerpts reveal the extent of bin Laden's obsession with ideological purity as he sought to manage the group's demoralized and scattered networks in his final years. They show him seeking to reassert control over factions of loosely affiliated jihadists from Yemen to Somalia, as well as independent actors who he believed had sullied al-Qaida's reputation and muddied its central message.

Bin Laden emerges from these accounts as a chief executive fully engaged in the group's myriad crises, grappling with financial problems, recruitment, rebellious field managers and sudden staff vacancies resulting from the unrelenting U.S. drone campaign. In some memos he worried about his own security, and in others he fretted about missing a huge potential marketing opportunity: the Arab Spring, with its millions of street revolutionaries looking to reshape politics in the Middle East.

The Saudi who built the world's first truly global jihadist movement is viewed as distracted at times by mundane details, such as which crops should be planted by al-Shabab allies in Somalia. He was coolly cordial with his former partner Ayman al-Zawahiri but increasingly drawn to the ideas of a younger lieutenant who possessed a firmer grasp of the power of the Internet and an ambition to modernize al-Qaida's message.

freediver wrote on May 2^nd, 2012 at 9:00pm:


Because the West don't lie through their teeth to justify their despicably inhuman actions against Muslim nations...

And if they did lie, a reputable rag like the dailymail surely wouldn't stoop to printing it, would they? 

Seriously fd, do you actually think about what you post? Or do you just get overwhelmed with the excitement of possibly getting your hands on another piece of propaganda you think you can use against Islam?

I think you pretty damn dumb to buy into crap like this
the fact that all msm outlets are covering it just makes it harder to believe

Who cares. Hes dead.

SOB

So killing 10000 innocent people is fine, but leaving a Koran in a bar would upset you?

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So what makes things easy to believe? Is it only true if it paints Islam in a better light?

So why do you care whether they left a Koran in a bar? Surely that is trivial to the point of absurdity? Unless of course you think your fellow Muslims are going to care more about that than the innocent victims.

freediver wrote on May 3^rd, 2012 at 6:00pm:




Falah is possibly making the point that pious Muslims about to sacrifice their lives for their religion probably wouldn't be in a bar in the first place, let alone take a Quran into one and leave it there.

Annie Anthrax wrote on May 3^rd, 2012 at 11:15pm:



I see. So the Koran in a bar thing must be a lie, because it was pious Muslims who did it?

Or was it the Jews?