> http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/ > this_just_in/documents/02093041.htm > > The Boston Phoenix, January 3-10, 2002 > > How the Journal got Al Qaeda's computers > > By Dan Kennedy > > This past Monday's Wall Street Journal led with an > astounding story about a personal computer that > had apparently been used by Al Qaeda terrorists to > plot the September assassination of Northern Alliance > leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. The computer's hard > drive also reportedly contained bioterrorism information > and a 23-minute video clip of Osama bin Laden > denouncing the United States and enthusing over > the September 11 attacks. > > How the computer came to be acquired by the Journal > is a pretty amazing story in itself. > > The article by staff reporters Alan Cullison and > Andrew Higgins offers a few details. A "Journal > reporter" purchased the IBM desktop computer, as well > as a Compaq laptop, in Kabul for a total of $1100 after > being told that they had been looted from an Al Qaeda > > office following a US bombing raid. The article goes > on to say that US officials confirmed the authenticity > of the files, "and say they provide a trove of > information about the inner workings of the secretive > organization." > > Intrigued, I sent e-mails to both reporters. Cullison, the > paper's Moscow correspondent, temporarily ensconced > in Washington, wrote back within a few hours. > > "I was in need of a computer, because the one that the > Wall Street Journal issued me was smashed when the > car I was taking over the Hindu Kush Mountains lost > its brakes and rolled," Cullison said. "I was looking for > one, and was much more interested in this laptop and > the hard drive [from the IBM] when I heard it was used > by al Qaeda."
Moscow correspondent. Computer destroyed. Shopping. Offer/Acceptance. At some point, this is not a "trail of evidence" this is a propaganda diversion "campaign" conducted through evidence. You think they were preparing for a damn documentary instead of a terrorist attack. They keep leaving evidence that suits political agendas. > "Sometimes chance and happenstance play an > incredible part in an incredible story," Bussey says. Bullshit. ~Aimee
