

Then again, as forensic psychologist and CIA consultant Reid Meloy states, it could have just been that, for all his outward claims of humble, righteous piousness, bin Laden was a normal guy who occasionally wanted to get his rocks off, since "biology trumps ideology.Stash can give you everything you need to build wealth for the long-term. However, the idea is raised by Bergen's show (directed by Aaron Kunkel) that the al Qaeda bigwig might have been hiding encrypting instructions in his pornographic files-a devious means of avoiding detection by marrying murderous commands to the very sort of sinful content he purportedly decried.

According to his letters, bin Laden feared using email as a means of spreading his message, because encryption couldn't be trusted this is why most of his interaction with the outside world occurred via couriers.

More interesting is Bin Laden's Hard Drive's suggestion that maybe the terrorist leader's sex videos (whose origins are unknown, since he didn't have an internet connection) were canny tools used to communicate with acolytes. And the fact that many of bin Laden's computers had been previously owned by others leaves some doubt as to whether or not he was even the one who compiled it in the first place. Although porn was definitely on his drives, the actual consumer of this X-rated stash remains something of a mystery. 10) doesn't provide any more details about precisely what kinky craziness bin Laden was watching-or, for that matter, whether he was watching it at all. Alas, his hour-long TV special (airing Sept. The revelation that bin Laden had a lot of smutty videos and images on his hard drives isn't new it was first reported by Reuters back in 2011, and has since been described by officials as "fairly extensive." Bin Laden's Hard Drive host Peter Bergen-a CNN national security analyst who, in 1997, was the first Western journalist to interview bin Laden on TV-says that "a significant amount of pornography" was retrieved by the Navy SEAL squad. The documentary presents am interesting theory about the XXX stash, writes Nick Schager at The Daily Beast - could Bin Laden have been using the pornography content to send encoded messages, rather than for purely prurient purposes? Peter Bergen, who famously interviewed Bin Laden, is the correspondent and host of the special.
