Know Your Terrorist

Following the calculated removal of Osama Bin Laden, the United States Military Forces are in the process of uncovering a wealth of information from the computers and electrical devices taken from the ring leader’s lair. The killing of Bin Laden not only represents a symbolic and legitimate step to end the war on terror, but the massive amounts of intelligence gathered from the terrorist’s compound could help thwart future al Qaeda attacks and diminish the overall power of the terror organization.

A senior US official told various media outlets that an initial check of the computers and electric devices uncovered from Bin Laden’s not-so hidden hideout “contain very valuable information”, including details of the terrorist groups’ shadowy financial outlets.

Currently, investigators and officials of the United States Federal Government are scouring the hard drives, cellphones, thumb drives and various electronic devices for target words such as “explosives” or “wedding”—a common dummy term used by Al Qaeda members to mask upcoming bombings. Furthermore, the American agents are searching for any leads that could identify previously unknown terrorists, networks or their tactics.

Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he was confident that the obtainment of Bin Laden’s electronic devices, recovered in the leader’s cushy Pakistan retreat, would unveil new terrorists to the United States’ watch list.