Osama Bin Laden preached virtue but savored his, ah, ‘videos’
A man who billed himself as a pious man of god and denounced the West as morally corrupt has been watching pornography after all.
The US Navy Seals who raided the Pakistan compound of Osama Bin Laden found a cache of pornography among seized items inside house occupied for the last several years by the Al Qaeda founder.
Some observers have dubbed the news as a US campaign to smear Bin Laden and sully his image and religious devotedness in the esteem of his supporters.
Reports have also circulated that Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound was cut off from the Internet or other hard-wired communications networks.
Bin Laden, who was married to three women and was even married before his latest three marriages, was vociferous in denouncing the West’s lack of moral values.
In a 2002 "letter to the American people," Bin Laden chided Americans for cultural exploitation of women’s bodies in dress, advertising and popular culture.
"Your nation exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools, calling upon customers to purchase them," he wrote, according to The New York Times.
"You plaster your naked daughters across billboards in order to sell a product without any shame. You have brainwashed your daughters into believing they are liberated by wearing revealing clothes, yet in reality all they have liberated is your sexual desire," he added.
News of Bin Laden’s pornography collection came in a week when it was disclosed that he consumed a herbal potion, avena sativa, found in sexual-performance medications. The herb, which works as a natural Viagra, is not as expensive as the drug manufactured by Pfizer (and American giant), and reportedly does not have any side effects.
For nearly a decade Bin Laden was nowhere to be found, but the US later found him in a town known for its military establishment in Abbottabad.
The US Navy Seals raid resulting in his killing has ended one of the longest and most expensive manhunts ever.