Editor’s note: This story is based on internal al Qaeda documents, details of which were obtained by CNN. Hundreds of documents were discovered by German cryptologists embedded inside a pornographic movie on a memory disk belonging to a suspected al Qaeda operative arrested in Berlin last year. The German newspaper Die Zeit was the first to report on the documents.
(CNN) — On May 16 last year, a 22-year-old Austrian named Maqsood Lodin was being questioned by police in Berlin. He had recently returned from Pakistan via Budapest, Hungary, and then traveled overland to Germany. His interrogators were surprised to find that hidden in his underpants were a digital storage device and memory cards.
Buried inside them was a pornographic video called “Kick Ass” — and a file marked “Sexy Tanja.”
Several weeks later, after laborious efforts to crack a password and software to make the file almost invisible, German investigators discovered encoded inside the actual video a treasure trove of intelligence — more than 100 al Qaeda documents that included an inside track on some of the terror group’s most audacious plots and a road map for future operations.
Future plots include the idea of seizing cruise ships and carrying out attacks in Europe similar to the gun attacks by Pakistani militants that paralyzed the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008. Ten gunmen killed 164 people in that three-day rampage.
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Terrorist training manuals in PDF format in German, English and Arabic were among the documents, too, according to intelligence sources.
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U.S. intelligence sources tell CNN that the documents uncovered are “pure gold;” one source says that they are the most important haul of al Qaeda materials in the last year, besides those found when U.S. Navy SEALs raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a year ago and killed the al Qaeda leader.
One document was called “Future Works.” Its authorship is unclear, but intelligence officials believe it came from al Qaeda’s inner core. It may have been the work of Younis al Mauretani, a senior al Qaeda operative until his capture by Pakistani police in 2011.
The document appears to have been the product of discussions to find new targets and methods of attack. German investigators believe it was written in 2009 — and that it remains the template for al Qaeda’s plans.
Investigative journalist Yassin Musharbash, a reporter with the German newspaper Die Zeit, was the first to report on the documents. One plan: to seize passenger ships. According to Musharbash, the writer “says that we could hijack a passenger ship and use it to pressurize the public.”
Musharbash takes that to mean that the terrorists “would then start executing passengers on those ships and demand the release of particular prisoners.”
The plan would include dressing passengers in orange jump suits, as if they were al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and then videotaping their execution.
Lodin and a man called Yusuf Ocak, who allegedly traveled back to Europe with him, are now on trial in Berlin where they are pleading not guilty. Ocak was detained in Vienna two weeks after Lodin’s arrest.
According to a senior Western counterterrorism official, their names were on a watch list, and when they handed over documents at a European border crossing, their names registered with counterterrorism agencies.
Both men have pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges. Ocak is also charged with helping to form a group called the German Taliban Mujahedeen, and is alleged to have made a video for the group threatening attacks in Germany.
Prosecutors believe the pair met at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan’s tribal territories and were sent back to Europe to recruit a network of suicide bombers.
“We do not know what those men were up to but there are certain files of information that would make it plausible that they were probably thinking of a Mumbai-style attack,” says Musharbash.
In the fall of 2010, a year after the document was written, European intelligence agencies were scrambling to investigate a Mumbai-style plot involving German and other European militants — which sparked an unprecedented U.S. State Department travel warning for Americans in Europe.
“I think it is plausible to think that the ‘Future Works’ document is part of that particular project,” says Musharbash.
“Future Works” suggests al Qaeda was an organization under great pressure, without a major attack to its name in several years, harried by Western intelligence. If anything, its predicament is even more dire today.
“The document delivers very clearly the notion that al Qaeda knows it is being followed very closely,” Musharbash tells CNN. “It specifically says that Western intelligence agencies have become very good at spoiling attacks, that they have to come up with new ways and better plotting.”
Part of the response, according to the document, should be to train European jihadists quickly and send them home — rather than use them as fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan — with instructions on how to keep in secret contact with their handlers.
What emerges from the document is a twin-track strategy — with the author apparently convinced that al Qaeda needs low-cost, low-tech attacks (perhaps such as the recent gun attacks in France carried out by Mohammed Merah) to keep security services preoccupied while it plans large-scale attacks on a scale similar to 9/11.
Those already under suspicion in Europe and elsewhere would be used as decoys, while others would prepare major attacks.
That is yet to materialize, but Musharbash believes a complex gun attack in Europe is still on al Qaeda’s radar.
“I believe that the general idea is still alive and I believe that as soon as al Qaeda has the capacities to go after that scenario, they will immediately do it,” he says.
While “Future Works” does not include dates or places, nor specific plans, it appears to be a brainstorming exercise to seize the initiative — and reinstate al Qaeda on front pages around the world.
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Hitler and Eva Braun fled Berlin and died (divorced) of old age in Argentina
Book Claims Hitler ‘Died In Argentina’
Wake up Germany!, your country has been occupied since the end of World War II by the same forces who are causing the same wars in the middle east today. The above CNN article is nothing more than PROPAGANDA. Your government is nothing else than an extension of your former nazi government who created a war against you and helped create the State of Israel as we know of today by a mind controlled puppet who peacefully died in Argentina and possibly Virginia-USA:
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The Transfer Agreement
You can expect nothing else than a false flag attack at any of your towns to further suppress your liberties:
It is very true that Hitler had been shipped out of Germany. This was achieved using two aircraft, one was a short-distance plane and the other long-distance which then took Hitler out into neutral Spain the homeland of the Jesuit Order (Los Alumbrados/Illuminati Ones[Aragon Templars]. It was from here he eventually boarded the second submarine which left for Argentina and took around fifty-three days to arrive at 23:00 hours at the destination.
From Argentina Martin Bormann commanded the finances of the Nazi’s and rebuilt Germany into the powerhouse it always has been ever since. Martin Bormann would funnel three times the currency over to Germany by buying German products over cost. This was done through hundreds of front companies where this currency was being cleaned and funneled shall we say. This is why Argentina is such a most important strategic location in the World second only to the Antarctic which is ultra hard to get anyway near. Argentina is the Nazi continuum as a land and has been since the end of the War. Bormann was very active up in British Columbia for a period of time.
The Knights of Malta funded Hitler and Bormann to the sum of one billion Federal Reserve notes in 1933 which was equal to the gross domestic product of the United States at the time. The Knights of Malta did this through their Dulles brothers commanded by Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles. It was the Knight of Malta Grace family who aided the relocating and employment of Nazis in the United States. The same Grace family who were studying the respiratory and immune system of humans for the purpose of biological attack as we see daily today on a soft kill scale.
Hitler did not spend his entire life in Argentina, he was moved into the United States and died far later tha 1960 into a very good old age in fact. Hitler and all these Nazis were protected by the Central Intelligence Agency who’s Directorate for Intelligence division is really the Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst Nazi continuum operation run for the last thirty-four years by Knight of Malta, George H.W Bush. The Nazis have run the dope trade out of South America for the House of Bourbon for years. The head of the operation was Nazi Joseph Menegele using Nicholas Klaus Barbie connected with Christian Van Damme the Vice-President of the Vatican’s Bank of America. His wife Helen Van Damme was one of the founders of the mind bending Stanford University and Stanford Research Institute, the U.S. version of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations. Christian Van Damme was a funder of Nazi dope such as his $30 million loan to John Delorean to do the deal with Thailand opium which would be worth twice the loan. John Delorean caused the assassination of the legendary Colin Chapman of Lotus thanks to these dirty dealing. Of course the assassination was palmed off as just another heart attack.
Hitler ended up dying in the Union State of Maryland in North America the Virginia Company of Plymouth (United States) area. Anyone hiding these facts will be an agent. Anyone hiding Fukushima facts will be an agent. I also recall this type of censorship against Dimitri Khalezov over 9/11. The majority of the so-called alternative media is controlled by the American Protective League continuum funded by the Catholic Church to blame everyone but the Vatican and more so the Jesuit Order. Jesuit soldier, Frederick Copleston SJ created the conspiracy movement. Jesuit Soldier, Pierre-Teilhard De Chardin SJ started the push of the New-Age movement. The Jesuits always control all sides of the coin and this is how they keep people suppressed even when they believe they are becoming illuminated.
-= The Unhived Mind
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