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CIA Releases Nearly 470,000 Additional Files on Usama Bin

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This CIA press release of November 1st links to "470,000 Additional Files Recovered in May 2011 Raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s Compound", as well as to documents previously released:

https://www.cia.gov/news-informatio...nal-files-recovered-in-ubl-compound-raid.html

Unfortunately, the new link is currently down due to a technical issue, and apparently has already been since thursday. Will hopefully be online soon.

I have seen news media items on this. Nothing spectacular: OBL apparently had a copy Loose Change on computer storage, liked to watch western entertainment DVD's (Tom&Jerry...). Unfortunately, his collection of porn (yes, really!) seems not to be included in this release.
 
Axxman300 said:
I like to think he spent his final years doing battle on internet comment fields against 9-11 Truthers who thought Bush did it.

Link is working.
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The link to the press release that I posted is fine. But the link within the press release to the new documents gives me a note indicating a tech problem, and then redirects to CIA start page.
 
Oystein said:
This CIA press release of November 1st links to "470,000 Additional Files Recovered in May 2011 Raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s Compound", as well as to documents previously released:

https://www.cia.gov/news-informatio...nal-files-recovered-in-ubl-compound-raid.html

Unfortunately, the new link is currently down due to a technical issue, and apparently has already been since thursday. Will hopefully be online soon.

I have seen news media items on this. Nothing spectacular: OBL apparently had a copy Loose Change on computer storage, liked to watch western entertainment DVD's (Tom&Jerry...). Unfortunately, his collection of porn (yes, really!) seems not to be included in this release.
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Is there any mention in those nearly 470,000 files as to how we should spell his name?
 
JohnG said:
Oh, you!
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:p

Point being, the question being asked is more properly "How should we spell his name in English?", and there really isn't a "right" answer ... because his name isn't English or any other language with recently common roots. The alphabet just doesn't contain the right representations.

So any spelling is necessarily an attempt at a phonetic rendition, which will depend not only on the dialect of Arabic being rendered but also on the dialect of English (or whatever) it is being rendered into, and the dialect of whoever is doing the rendering.

Some attempts may (or may not) be closer than others, but without rendering it in its native Arabic script it isn't ever going to be exactly right.
 
Oystein said:
The link to the press release that I posted is fine. But the link within the press release to the new documents gives me a note indicating a tech problem, and then redirects to CIA start page.
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That is still the case as of 0605 CST 6 Nov 17.
 
Fonebone said:
Tim Osman
http://humansarefree.com/2011/05/proof-that-osama-bin-laden-was-cia-and.html
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Spreading lies, inspiring terrorists like the boston bombers, 9/11 truth. Falling for lies, unable to comprehend reality; a required trait for 9/11 truth nuts like the one who you found with the Tim Osman BS. Good job.

Wow, an idiot says UBL is Tim Osman, you find the biggest idiots of 9/11 truth; that is a skill, good job exposing ignorance, lies and delusional claims. You might be the debunker of the month with this find. What year was that?

What else can you debunk?

It is true, Truth, like the sun, allows itself to be obscured;
but, like the sun, only for a time __Bovee - and 9/11 truth is in a universe of eternal darkness, the pit of ignorance where the sun never shines, and does not exist. There is no truth in 9/11 truth, a NAZI like name for liars, also, a name out of the novel "1984". 911 truth, a movement of eternal lies.

9/11 truth, a movement stillborn on 9/11.

UBL, made a big mistake helping inspire nuts who are slightly smarter than 9/11 truth believers.
 
Fonebone said:
Tim Osman
http://humansarefree.com/2011/05/proof-that-osama-bin-laden-was-cia-and.html
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This kind of bilge always makes me chuckle. It can only be asserted by people who have no understanding whatsoever of the world outside their bedrooms.
Osama Bin Laden came from a prominent Saudi family. He didn't just appear in a flash of green smoke some time in the 1980s. Many, many people knew him and interacted with him, long before historically illiterate CT-ists had ever heard of him. Many of those people are still alive. Strangely, no-one in the Bin Laden family has come forward to say "there never was an Osama, we don't know who he was." This is possibly because they knew him, being from his family and all.
Goodness me. :rolleyes:
 
MicahJava said:
Fonebone, you do realize that the guy who came up with "Tim Osman/Osama Bin Laden" also claimed that the Alfred P. Murrah federal building was destroyed by an energy weapon?
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It could be said that, in the final analysis, a truckload of explosives might be described as an energy weapon, since it certainly involves the release of a lot of energy.

:p

But I expect that this is not what he (or you) were referring to by that term.

:)
 
Oystein said:
This CIA press release of November 1st links to "470,000 Additional Files Recovered in May 2011 Raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s Compound", as well as to documents previously released:

https://www.cia.gov/news-informatio...nal-files-recovered-in-ubl-compound-raid.html

Unfortunately, the new link is currently down due to a technical issue, and apparently has already been since thursday. Will hopefully be online soon.
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Ahhh the material is back online!

They posted these explanations:
CIA said:
CIA resolved the technical issues associated with the 1 November 2017 posting of the Abbottabad compound material, removing operating system and other copyrighted files as well as files that potentially posed a risk to users. CIA also converted Microsoft Office files into Portable Document Format (PDF) to enable viewing of the material from any device and to minimize any risks to users, and converted executable files (files that run programs on a computer) to a format that no longer poses a risk to users.

For all removed files, the original filename is listed in a glossary to allow users to trace the disposition of the file and to understand the specific reason for the file's removal or conversion.

All converted files are available by original filename in the Converted Material section.
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And also
CIA said:
Out of an abundance of caution we took the site down to resolve technical issues associated with the initial posting – and to remove additional detected malware – but we cannot guarantee that all malware has been removed.
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The entire collection of files apparently is 258 GB in a zip-File, although they have also indexed individual files.
 
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