NEW YORK (voa) – The Wall Street Journal reports two computers believed to have been used by the al-Qaida terrorist network for years contain hundreds of documents about the organization’s operations.
The newspaper said Monday one of its reporters bought the computers for more than $100,000 from a Kabul computer merchant who says they were looted from an al-Qaida office after U.S. bombings.
U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed the computers contain al-Qaida files.
The documents reveal the day-to-day operations of the organization, including al-Qaida’s efforts to develop chemical and biological weapons. But the computers apparently do not contain files related to the September 11 terrorist attacks or any future attacks.
The computers do contain documents pointing to al-Qaida involvement in this year’s assassination of anti-Taleban leader Ahmed Shah Massoud.
