'Huge' porn stash found in Bin Laden's bedroom, U.S. official says
U.S. Navy SEALs found a 'huge' and 'fairly extensive' stash of pornography in a wooden box in Osama bin Laden's bedroom, U.S. officials have said.
The porn material was discovered in a raid last week at bin Laden’s Abbottabad mansion compound, according to an initial report by Reuters describing the stash as fairly extensive, citing current and former U.S. officials.
The stash was huge, a U.S. official told ABC News. The box included electronically recorded videos.
The new revelation is part of a series of revelations by U.S. officials in recent days. Among other items found were computers and portable storage devices known as thumb drives which could take weeks if not months to go through.
Bin laden lived on the compound with three wives. Other families, probably related to his trusted couriers, lived on the compound as well.
Video released by the White House Saturday shows bin Laden watching himself on satellite television in his bedroom. Other reports said that while he did not have a phone or Internet connection at the compound, he sent e-mail messages through couriers.
A handwritten journal seized during the raid reveals that the slain Al-Qaeda leader was preoccupied with attacking the United States over all other targets.
In it he urged followers make a single attack that would kill thousands of Americans, look beyond New York to other U.S. cities, and strike on significant days, according to a report.
No specific attacks were planned, U.S. officials told the Associated Press in a report on Thursday.
Last week, the FBI warned bin Laden was considering targeting trains, citing intelligence gathered from the compound. No specific plot was announced.
The journal contents cited on Thursday show bin Laden communicated with people in al-Qaeda affiliated groups, as well as the organization's Yemen branch.
He told followers not to limit attacks to New York, according to report. He said other targets such as Los Angeles or smaller cities should be considered.
Administration officials have called the Abbottbad findings the greatest intelligence haul from a senior terrorist they had ever gotten.
Officials said Thursday it will take weeks, if not months to go through all the findings, according to the report.
President Barack Obama said in an interview last week that bin Laden had some sort of support network inside Pakistan that allowed him to go unnoticed over the past several years he was living at the compound.
U.S. and Pakistan authorities are investigating who and what those networks actually were.
Pakistan currently has Osama's wives in custody who were left behind after the attacks. The U.S. planned to take some survivors of the compound raid with them but were reportedly not able to after one of the helicopters being used failed and was destroyed in an attempt to avoid the release of important U.S. military technology.
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