The US is tracking possible new targets and stepping up surveillance of operatives previously considered minor al-Qaeda figures after digging through the mountain of correspondence seized from Osama bin Laden's hideout, the Associated Press news agency says quoting US officials.
The trove of material is filling in blanks on how al-Qaeda operatives work, think and fit in the organisation, they said.
The new information is the result of five weeks of round-the-clock work by a CIA-led team of data analysts, cyber experts and translators who are 95 per cent finished decrypting and translating the years of material and expect to complete the effort by mid-June, two US officials said.
Al-Qaeda operatives worldwide are feeling the heat, with at least two of them altering their travel plans in recent weeks in apparent alarm that they might become the targets of another US raid, one official said.
The items taken by the SEALs from bin Laden's second-floor office included a handwritten journal, five computers, 10 hard drives and 110 thumb drives.
Copies of the material have been distributed to agencies from the FBI to the Defence Intelligence Agency to continue long-term analysis, one official said.
Bin Laden correspondence
ReplyDeleteThe US is tracking possible new targets and stepping up surveillance of operatives previously considered minor al-Qaeda figures after digging through the mountain of correspondence seized from Osama bin Laden's hideout, the Associated Press news agency says quoting US officials.
The trove of material is filling in blanks on how al-Qaeda operatives work, think and fit in the organisation, they said.
The new information is the result of five weeks of round-the-clock work by a CIA-led team of data analysts, cyber experts and translators who are 95 per cent finished decrypting and translating the years of material and expect to complete the effort by mid-June, two US officials said.
Al-Qaeda operatives worldwide are feeling the heat, with at least two of them altering their travel plans in recent weeks in apparent alarm that they might become the targets of another US raid, one official said.
The items taken by the SEALs from bin Laden's second-floor office included a handwritten journal, five computers, 10 hard drives and 110 thumb drives.
Copies of the material have been distributed to agencies from the FBI to the Defence Intelligence Agency to continue long-term analysis, one official said.