Rabu, 04 Mei 2011
Osama Bin Laden Escape Plan: Stitched Money found in his Clothes
Osama bin Laden appeared to be ready to run at any time with money and phone numbers stitched into his clothes on the day he was shot dead by elite Navy SEALs.
Bin Laden's clothing had 500 euros and two phone numbers sewn into it, sources told ABC News. A Central Intelligence Agency task force is analyzing those phone numbers as well as 10 cell phones, 10 computers and a 100 thumb drives confiscated from the sprawling compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, during the 40-minute raid that resulted in bin Laden's death.
The cell phones and thumb drives were likely used by the two couriers living with bin Laden. Officials are going through each computer running keyword searches using words like "explosives" or "weddings." Weddings is a word often used by al Qaeda to signify a bombing. They are also tracing the phone numbers found.
"There's a lot we have to go through, some encryption, some coding. It's in another language. It's in Arabic, so there's a lot to go through before we really find out what we have, but remember small pieces of information can be critically important," said Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
While intelligence officials continue analyzing this mother lode of information, President Obama is reportedly growing increasingly skeptical about showing photographic proof of the al Qaeda mastermind's death.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are advising the president that releasing a picture could prompt a backlash against the United States for killing bin Laden, sources told ABC News.
"Here's the problem, if you're a sergeant in a town in ... Afghanistan and you're trying to get some local elder to cooperate on what's happening in your village, are you going to do it if this inflames into some kind of trophy of Osama bin Laden," said Rogers.
After monitoring voices on Arab and Muslim media, the president and some members of his national security team do not believe that there are many skeptics in the Muslim world that doubt bin Laden is dead, sources said. This apparent lack of skepticism coupled with the fact that bin Laden's wife identified the terrorist to both the Navy SEALs and Pakistani intelligence officials has made the president increasingly doubtful there's a compelling reason to release a photograph.
"I think it's pretty common knowledge that the wives are talking, yes it was Osama bin Laden. Yes, he's dead," Rodgers said.
The Obama administration possesses a number of photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse after the 40-minute firefight at his Pakistani compound on Sunday. The photos were taken in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
Officials who have seen the photographs said bin Laden has a gunshot wound to his forehead and the insides of his head are visible.
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