I Called It! They "Found" UBL's Porn Stash

On May 11, 2011 CE, during my PIX 11 commentary (contained and referenced infra), I made a prediction of sorts as to what I believed the PsyOps (Psychological Operations for the unenlightened) folks would plant, er, I mean find in bin Laden's palatial $1M compound: a $1M compound, the exemplar of sheer unmitigated squalor, disguised as a ramshackle hovel worth at best a quarter of said price. Listen carefully at approximately the 2:40 mark and marvel at my prescience, my vatic countenance. I amaze myself and my peers. Mr. G's unable to contain himself as he wonders aloud to anyone who'll listen how I am able to augur the future and read the entrails of the faux terrorism beast.

In a most authoritative and snarkily-penned piece entitled 'Extensive' porn stash: Three ways US has tried to sully bin Laden's image, The Chritsian Science Monitor's Brad Knickerbocker provides in part the following.

Officials revealed Friday that among the computers and other electronic storage devices found in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was a stash of pornography described as “extensive” in several news reports.

Although bin Laden did not have access to the Internet, his couriers brought him flash drives, computer disks, and other recorded messages.

As reported by Reuters, officials are not yet sure where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it – specifically whether or not bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials.

But the implication is there, and it does the terrorist mastermind’s image no good – particularly in a part of the world (and in a movement) marked by conservative traditions and attitudes toward sex.

The release of the videos and photographs of bin Laden, together with the growing list of his personal character quirks are "part of the US government's effort to discredit him after his death so … he doesn't become a martyr in the eyes of the Arab youth," former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke told ABC News.

Now, this shouldn't shock anyone. That's the way the game's played. But don't expect the barking seals (not the ninja Team Six kind) and trained monkeys of the corporate-controlled media to utter a word of his. No, they relay the story without so much as an afterthought.

But, just remember: You heard it here first.