Bin Laden’s phone numbers to help US get biggest intelligence windfall?
May 5th, 2011 - 12:43 pm ICT by ANIWashington, May 5(ANI): The US secret raid on Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s home in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city has reportedly produced what could be the biggest intelligence windfall since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
According to CBS News, after the US Navy SEALS scrambled away with Laden’s body, they found 500 Euros in cash and two phone numbers sewn inside his clothing apparently intended to aid an escape.
Now, intelligence analysts are digging into those numbers, tracing previous calls to and from those phones, mapping out a network of terrorist communications.
Experts believe the phone numbers could reveal who bin Laden was talking to, who he was directing, as well as other phone numbers linked to Al-Qaeda operatives.
The SEALs also recovered at least five computers, a dozen hard drives, storage devices such as DVDs and thumb drives and over one hundred computer disks.
They also grabbed handwritten notes, weapons, and an assortment of personal items that could reveal key clues about other high-ranking Al-Qaeda leaders and potential plots. Meanwhile, a task force led by the CIA is digging through copies of the electronic files, looking for names, numbers, and possible locations of terror operatives.”As we glean information from that material we will make appropriate decisions with regard to who might be added to the terrorist watch list, the no-fly list, all those things,” Attorney General Eric Holder said. (ANI)
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