Bin Laden may have sent secret messages to fellow terrorists via adult videos

• A new documentary about Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist mastermind may have embedded hidden messages in explicit content to communicate with the outside world.
• The documentary was put together by National Geographic and is hosted by CNN security analyst Peter Bergen.

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While there have certainly been a number of intriguing documentaries about Osama bin Laden in recent years, a new documentary from National Geographic takes something of a unique approach. Rather than focusing on bin Laden's life or the 9/11 attacks themselves, the documentary takes a close look at the documents and files found on bin Laden's collection of hard drives. Recall that when members from SEAL Team Six raided bin Laden's compound, they also managed to seize upwards of 10 computers, a number of hard drives, DVDs, thumb drives, and a variety of documents.

So what makes bin Laden's hard drives so interesting? Well aside from providing the U.S. with a closer look into the mind of a terrorist, it also sheds some light on some of the operational strategies bin Laden utilized in putting the 9/11 attacks together. Specifically, the documentary relays that bin Laden could have been using explicit videos to send secret messages to other 9/11 terrorists and planners.

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