Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data....

[one_voice]

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.

“They cleaned it out,” one official said. “Can you imagine what’s on Osama bin Laden’s hard drive?”

U.S. officials are about to find out. The material is being examined at a secret location in Afghanistan.

“Hundreds of people are going through it now,” an official said, adding that intelligence operatives back in Washington are very excited to find out what they have.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54151.html#ixzz1LF8pM9yr


This is great news!

[Botany]

1. I do not need to know anything about it right now ...

.... 5 years down the road I'll read the book.

[seabeyond]

2. hooyah... nt

[elfin]

3. How did they get it and corpses and survivors out??

Know they had a replacement heli -- was that enough?

[pnwmom]

5. They had several helicopters, and they must have been enough.

Since we know no American was killed.

[jberryhill]

7. Well... since they are not still there, apparently it was /nt

[pnwmom]

4. Another excellent reason for not dropping bombs as some advised.

Great decision!

[OhioChick]

6. I'm sure there's a wealth of information there n/t

[jberryhill]

8. We'll finally find out his freeper name! /nt

[Uncle Joe]

9. That was a nice coup of intelligence gathering.

Thanks for the thread, one_voice.

[drm604]

10. This is how you do it Freepers!

Attacking the wrong country doesn't cut it. This is what you do.

[kestrel91316]

11. Heh heh. The REAL reason they didn't carpet bomb the place......