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Bin Laden's Bookshelf

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Re: Bin Laden's Bookshelf

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Post by codezero »

inostia wrote: post #18
nomoreplease wrote: post #11

> Black Box Voting, Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century by Bev Harris > Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier These two were the most interesting on the list to me. Not sure why he cared about the first , but the second (and other titles about conspiracies) is really strange to me. Has anyone here read that book?

Interestingly enough there's also an occult-related book called The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall (1928). That book is more or less an overview of esoteric beliefs in the West. Why was he fascinated in this stuff?

It may make sense if you couple it with the MKULTRA/influence material he also had as a way to understand his adversary and potentially influence them using their own dogma.

Re: Bin Laden's Bookshelf

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Post by nlh »

mmmpop wrote: post #4

Props to the joker who built the page like it was still 2001. Why does it refresh on each click of a section of books? Terrible.

That joker almost certainly == the lowest bidder in what was like ya terrible government requisition process for a website.

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Post by harpiaharpyja »

LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #35
SeriousM wrote: post #17

- Arabic language tutorial for violent jihadist extremists on how to use Google Thats halirious ;)

Is it? Have you seen [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Kybernetiq+magazine ? AFAIK it covers anything from rooting your smartphone, installing alternative OS/'ROM', ungoogling, alternative appstores, sideloading, safe messaging, using Linux the same way, and so on. edit: I should say the discovery shocked me a bit at the time. Because before that I talked on IRC with ppl I just knew electronically, but not in person abou…

Are you some kind of bot?

Someone with the ability to flag comments should look at this.

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Post by Daniel_sk »

veltas wrote: post #6

The top links all go to CIA website and have loads of PDFs that I think contain Al Qaeda propaganda and news. So don't click on that in the UK, pretty sure it's illegal to download that with our terror laws.

It seems the general public of UK already lost the war on terror.

Re: Bin Laden's Bookshelf

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Post by revolvingocelot »

hindsightbias wrote: post #2

He must have done a lot a victory laps from his reading material: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/features/bin-laden-s-bookshelf...

Note the last element in the list: "“Website Claims Steve Jackson Games Foretold 9/11,” article posted on ICV2.com (this file contained only a single saved web page)".

What?! Well, here it is:

https://archive.is/PTdB3

Re: Bin Laden's Bookshelf

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Post by AutoImmune »

Well bin Laden was something of a scholar. He actually wrote a "letter to America" shortly after 911, setting out, in a hierarchy of labelled premises (like in a philosophy paper) a systemic case for 911. It's virtually censored in the US and no major outlet has ever carried it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver

Despite the existence of documented motives as laid out here, to this day the official US position on 911 causation remains "they hated us for our freedom". I wonder if that's what's being taught in schools.

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Post by echohack5 »

veltas wrote: post #7

Based on the technical books Bin Laden owned I think he could potentially do a better job than they did with this page.

> McAfee Antivirus ...

I just about spit out my coffee.

What I love about this section is how the software manuals section reads like a tragic poem. "And here, even this man faced the plague of HP Printers, Adobe software, and McAfee free trials."

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

harpiaharpyja wrote: post #43
LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? Have you seen [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Kybernetiq+magazine ? AFAIK it covers anything from rooting your smartphone, installing alternative OS/'ROM', ungoogling, alternative appstores, sideloading, safe messaging, using Linux the same way, and so on. edit: I should say the discovery shocked me a bit at the time. Because before that I talked on IRC with ppl I just knew electronically, but not in person abou…

Are you some kind of bot? Someone with the ability to flag comments should look at this.

What makes you think that?

Re: Bin Laden's Bookshelf

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Post by whoisburbansky »

jvanderbot wrote: post #40

"Although, three years ago the missile cost was seven hundred fifty rupees but now it is three thousand " Are you kidding me? RPGs or better ("missiles") cost 3000 rupees? That's 40 US$.

Where is this a quote from? I was curious if exchange rates had changed that much since, e.g. the year 2000, but at 2000 rates, 3000 Rs. is still only about $70, which still seems pretty low for explosive ammo.
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