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.
As US navy seals were preparing to storm Osama bin Laden's now infamous compound in Pakistan one year ago, two of his operatives were sneaking out of the country on a mission to cause carnage in Europe. They were heading for Berlin and Vienna.
When they returned to Europe one of them was arrested and searched in Germany. Investigators found a memory card hidden inside his underwear. Buried deep inside the disc was a pornographic video file called 'Sexy Tania' which was protected by an almost invisible password, CNN reports.
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Hidden inside that video were files of what police believe were more than 100 secret al Qaeda documents, including a roadmap for al Qaeda future operations, which outlined a plan to seize cruise ships.
To read more details on the contents of the documents go to CNN.
