CIA Document Dump: Hundreds of Thousands of OBL Docs Released!
The folks from The Long War Journal, as reported at The Weekly Standard have the first analysis of a huge cache of data recovered from Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound. These files, documents, and images were amassed after the raid which claimed Bin Laden’s life.
Per Thomas Joscelyn and Bill Roggio, the stockpile contains:
* For the first time, there’s a picture of Hamza bin Laden, Osama’s secretive son, who’s never before been photographed.
* There’s a file with bin Laden’s hand-written, 228-page private journal.
* There’s a good deal of evidence that at the time of his death, bin Laden was still actively leading al Qaeda.
* Also, there’s a great deal of information on bin Laden’s ties to Iran and Iraq.
Here’s Joscelyn and Roggio on al Qaeda and Iran:
One never-before-seen 19-page document contains a senior jihadist’s assessment of the group’s relationship with Iran. The author explains that Iran offered some “Saudi brothers” in al Qaeda “everything they needed,” including “money, arms” and “training in Hezbollah camps in Lebanon, in exchange for striking American interests in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.” Iranian intelligence facilitated the travel of some operatives with visas, while sheltering others. Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, an influential ideologue prior to 9/11, helped negotiate a safe haven for his jihadi comrades inside Iran. But the author of the file, who is clearly well-connected, indicates that al Qaeda’s men violated the terms of the agreement and Iran eventually cracked down on the Sunni jihadists’ network, detaining some personnel. Still, the author explains that al Qaeda is not at war with Iran and some of their “interests intersect,” especially when it comes to being an “enemy of America.”
Bin Laden’s files show the two sides have had heated disagreements. There has been hostility between the two. Al Qaeda even penned a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei demanding the release of family members held in Iranian custody. Other files show that al Qaeda kidnapped an Iranian diplomat to exchange for its men and women. Bin Laden himself considered plans to counter Iran’s influence throughout the Middle East, which he viewed as pernicious.
However, bin Laden urged caution when it came to threatening Iran. In a previously released letter, bin Laden described Iran as al Qaeda’s “main artery for funds, personnel, and communication.” And despite their differences, Iran continued to provide crucial support for al Qaeda’s operations.
Iran supporting al Qaeda? Here’s my surprised look. It’s pretty clear why this document dump did not occur during the one-sided Iran nuclear negotiation conducted by the past administration.
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a question for someone better informed than i am. i am curious, why don’t we just lay waste to Irans Infrastructure? Iraq, afghanistan and syria are all basically in the stone ages these days and look at lebanon, the paris of the middle east. after the civil war there they are still only midway through the 20th century these days.
to me that would be a good thing since we don’t really need anything that Iran has to offer. at least with afghanistan its a door to the USSR and Iraq has oil, but we could really puck up Iran and not ever have to look back at it again, let turkey deal with it.
We should have laid waste to the sonovabitches after the Beirut Marine Barracks bombing. Truth of the matter is the American people don’t have the stomach to put an end to this bullshit. Republicans and Democrats. I am so fucking (forgive me Chaplin) tired of hearing, “Why can’t we all just get along”.
Take it you don’t have a Coexist sticker on your car? /smile
You cannot coexist with someone who wants to kill you.
On the other hand, you can kill them first and be done with the bastards.
SJ – looks like you slipped in ahead of me. My post was not a response to yours – I’m not trying to ding you.
Might be worth noting that Iran is several times the size of Iraq, has a more professional military, probably has nuclear weapons, and would most likely not only be a much tougher opponent but counterstrike Israel faster than Fatty Kim would bombard Seoul. Not necessarily a good idea while we are not even out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. yet.
The very first detonation of an Iranian nuke anywhere in the Middle East will probably bring their own immediate total and absolute nuclear destruction by Israel. Such a foolhardy move by Iran is just what the Israelis are waiting for, a valid excuse to take out their single biggest threat and their single biggest headache.
Without Iranian funding, arming and training, Hezbollah, Hamas and other anti-Israel terror groups would wither on the vine. And if you think the Saudis would take up the slack, seeing what the Israelis had done to the far more powerful Iran would likely give the Saudis pause, lest they receive similar treatment.
GB: Great minds think alike!
golly vern, you don’t think that perverted pedophile Bubba Clinton would go along with something like that back then do you? lol
Iran before the 1979 revolution was a modern, industrialized country with a burgeoning middle class that was well on its way to achieving economic self-sufficiency.
Iran if given time would have begun to slowly, haltingly, but steadily move away from its authoritarian roots and the Pahlevi ruling dynasties toward becoming a secular republic with increasingly democratic rule-of-law, like the ROK in the late 1980s and Taiwan in the late 1990s.
All this potential progress was thrown away by the Iranian people starting in 1978 when they turned toward shiite fundamentalism, overthrew their government, and let in the Ayatollahs and passively allowed their country to be turned back into a dark-age medieval religious hell-hole. They have nobody to blame but themselves. They deserve to be wiped off the map, but nobody has the guts to do them the favor…
It appears to me that, given the fact that the prior administration had this information available, and observing the actions of said administration, one might conclude some collusion with our enemies.
As an aside, for those who haven’t looked at it, The Long War Journal is an excellent web site for information on the GWOT.
Highly recommended.
“Iran supporting al Qaeda? Here’s my surprised look. It’s pretty clear why this document dump did not occur during the one-sided Iran nuclear negotiation conducted by the past administration”.
Jawn Fraud sKerry was unavailable for comment, as was Obama.
We extended an Olive Branch to the Islamic world when we evacuated the PLO from Beirut in 1982. In turn, they fashioned spears from it and drew blood.
The reason we did not crush this Theocracy of Evil we call Iran is a fear of Russian (former Soviet) retaliation.
That reality alone and no other is the root of radical Islam. Too many Administrations have capitulated to this fear, real or imagined, allowing radical Islam to propagate.
Until we face this issue based on reason and not fear it will continue to exist. I have to agree with the impressions of Goya, The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.
+1
Well said Dave. The best thing we could do is align with Russia and put an end to them now.
I always wondered why we didn’t approach them when they were dealing with their own (Chehchen) Islamic assholes.
They want America and Israel dead and gone from the planet, plain and simple. So, fuck them and fuck them hard. There’s nothing in these countries we can’t get somewhere else. Every shit hole we have ever gone into and modernized, even for our own benefit, has prospered, until, the ass holes nationalize industries and decide that Allah, goat screwing, boy blasting, woman flogging and man love is a better way of life. These are degenerate followers of a degenerate 7th century Jim Jones or David Koresh, nothing more or less. So if they die before they kill more of us, that’s just damned fine with me. The more and the sooner the better. I just hope Obama lives to a rotten YOUNG age along with Hillary and Kerry for all they did to further OBL, Iran, Syria and their ilk. I feel better now, rant over.
WHAT ABOUT HIS EXTENSIVE PORN STASH?!?!?!?!?
😀 😀 😀 😀
/” I’m asking for a friend 😉 “
They won’t release the stash due to copyright issues; although I’m sure the goat wouldn’t mind.
Shoot, what about the porn-loving women he had with him at the compound?
MLP season 1-10.
The Duffel Blog has an in- depth report for yah Chip.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/11/osama-bin-laden-hard-drive/
(and because its the Duffel Blog, you know its true.)
It’s almost as if we have to return to the mentality of the Cold War, but instead of facing down Nikita Krushchev, align ourselves with someone who is a lot more astute and tricky than he was.
Sorry, but we’re gonna have a hard time finding someone like that. Nixon’s been dead for a couple of decades now. (smile)
I could find a witch doctor and recall that gasbag from his grave, you know. It ain’t that hard if you have enough cash for the witch doctor.
Oh, there’s a plot for a movie: Recalling Nixon!
Cold War mentality is what got us in this BS in the first place. Pointy Headed CIA types backed the wrong people on almost every occasion in the 20th Century and we wound up fighting all of them.
Think of it like this: we haven’t won a major war since we had the CIA.
Not surprising considering Obama was always in bed with Shia Muslims.
This is just further proof of it. He’s willing to sacrifice a Sunni Islamist for show like Bin Laden in order to further conquest by Shia Islamists from Iran to the Muslim Brotherhood.
That explains all the Iran shit including the Shia spring and why he wanted to pullout as fast as possible in Iraq so Shia Iran can come right on in.
What? No good cookie recipes?! I feel shorted. Maybe if CAG/Team 6 gets off their asses and rolls up Bakr al-Baghdadi and gets his killer recipe for macaroons, that’d be… sweet.
All I know need to know is: in the dead of the night a Joint Special Operations Mission, consisting of US Army 160th Aviators, NSW DEVGRU Operators and others stormed the compound of Osama bin Laden, shot him in the head, bagged his ass up, flew him to a US Navy carrier and unceremoniously dumped his rotting body into the ocean for sharks and sea snakes to feed upon.
bin Laden is dead. And he’d better stay dead.
End of story.