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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Fallujah yields up weapons, videos |
| 2004-11-20 |
| The video cassette in the Sony Handycam told the story of how the mujahideen of Fallujah prayed, lived, and died, even as US forces invaded 10 days ago. Found along with a laptop computer, stacks of CD-ROMs, and a number of telephones in an insurgent safe house Thursday, the trove is just one of many intelligence finds in Fallujah that are shedding light on the insurgency. Those finds - along with that of a vast weapons cache and safe house operating under the cover of an Islamic medical charity, which contained flags of Al Qaeda affiliate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - are one reason US marine commanders want to keep pushing the offensive. While firefights continue, the battered city echoed throughout the day Thursday with the crashing booms of US military explosives experts destroying one weapons stockpile after another. "It's going to take a long time [for insurgents] to reconstruct what they had in this city, for command and control, to push people out to Ramadi, Tikrit, and down south," says Col. Craig Tucker, commander of the Regimental Combat Team-7, which has waged the attack. They have to reestablish their ratlines." Those who would do that - if they are still alive - are the young, thinly bearded men on the captured video, which translators believe features some fighters from Saudi Arabia or Yemen. Clearly militants, they are first shown mourning a martyr whose body lies on a stretcher with a white strip of cloth around his head. There is an AK-47 assault rifle behind him in one scene; in another, the gun is clasped to the dead man's chest. The film also shows tanks in Fallujah - apparently US Army tanks from the first day of assault - and a militant popping up on a rooftop with a rocket- propelled grenade (RPG), and firing wildly away from the target. The cameraman can be heard speaking in awe: "Oooohhh." The video shows what appears to be suicide bombers preparing for battle and talking with black-turbaned comrades. It also shows insurgents with an unmanned US drone surveillance aircraft, a Pioneer labeled "Crazy Horse 1054." Also on tape is an antiaircraft gun mounted in the back of a truck, and night battles, with tracer rounds arcing across the sky. The computer was password protected, and is now being examined by US intelligence officers. The light armored reconnaissance unit that discovered the safe house during a random check blew it up Thursday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 cd030225.iso download it, burn it. own any windoze box Best of all --- its French. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2004-11-20 10:54:15 PM |
| #13 OOooh and to have a look at the mind set of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and friends , one should read a book called 'An Evil Cradling' by Brian Keenan , hence my assumption that there will be alot of porn on it hehe (repressed twats that they are) . An absolutely facsinating read ifnot 'shocking ' . A must for any rantburger with time on their hands . |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-11-20 9:24:53 PM |
| #12 Interesting too see that the Red Cross is in full support of the Terrorists..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-11-20 9:24:23 PM |
| #11 sooo , i revert to my previous statement LOL 'The computer was password protected' , ooh please ....... |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-11-20 9:09:53 PM |
| #10 It only takes a couple of minutes to get around a boot-up (BIOS) password if you know how. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-11-20 9:08:44 PM |
| #9 Analog Roam > FileCrypto uses well-known fast block cipher algorithms , namely Blowfish and 3DES (These algorithms work on chunks of specific sized data along with a secret key resulting in blocks of cipher text) . This does not make things secure , it makes things slower to crack but not 100% secure in this day and age . Now a home user would find it impossible to break , but maybe just maybe you could by networking up 1000's of computers to reduce time (as this is the main factor )or use the lastest super computers , which im sure the US government has hehe . Decryption is done by applying the reverse transformation to the block of ciphertext using the same key . Interesting fact for you In 1998, the RSA Challenge II contest was won by Electronic Frontier Foundation. They cracked DES in 56 hrs using a supercomputer. In 1999, Distributed.net won Challenge III and cracked DES in 22 hrs. Dedicated hardware can be built to crack DES much faster. For an investment of $1 million, DES can be cracked in less than an hour. Look at the dates , that was years ago . The issue with cracking 3DES is 'computing power' to break the 168-bit keys . Network up a few *cough* super computers who's sole purpose in 'life' is to churn Maths you sort of get the picture , it may take a while but it will be done . As Justrand points out the odds of these guys having password protected / securely encrypted a laptop in a manner that we can't break are zero . I think for the most part , all that will be found on the jihadi computers is alot of porn and bill gates crap . But I'm sure you knew that, right? MN . |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-11-20 9:03:03 PM |
| #8 The odds of these guys having password protected a laptop in a manner that we can't break are zero. Doesn't mean they ALL use "BINLADEN" or "KERRYEDWARDS"...ut just means we have good code people! crazyhorse...whether THESE morons are stupid enough to go fess up to Zargawi or not, I think a lot of these boyos will soon adopt a new motto for their Jihad: "Fuck THIS!" |
| Posted by: Justrand 2004-11-20 6:59:40 PM |
| #7 Note to AR: password-protected is not synonymous with encrypted (let alone 'strongly encrypted"). Few people truly understand such distinction. One may hope stressed and soon-to-be-corpse jihadis don't either. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-11-20 6:54:51 PM |
| #6 "LOL 'The computer was password protected' , ooh please ......." Well...you can scoff if you like. But, If they are using something like F-Secure's FileCrypto on the disk partitions, then it could be a significant impediment to accessing the contents. But I'm sure you knew that, right? -AR |
| Posted by: Analog Roam 2004-11-20 6:47:05 PM |
| #5 password: Dudeweregettingadell |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-20 5:54:23 PM |
| #4 The rats left in a hurry.Would like to see their faces when Zargawi asks where the lap top is and afterwards with that bullet in their skull.Maybe thier code is on the lap top. |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2004-11-20 5:51:43 PM |
| #3 Oh Oh! Password was: Fatima No, it was lettermein No, wait it was (really) whatisthesoundofthelonelygoatherd |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-20 5:49:30 PM |
| #2 The computer was password protected, and is now being examined by US intelligence officers. The light armored reconnaissance unit that discovered the safe house during a random check blew it up Thursday. How are you like that Cowboys! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-20 5:46:34 PM |
| #1 LOL 'The computer was password protected' , ooh please ....... |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-11-20 5:44:23 PM |