http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1On May 16 last year, a 22-year-old Austrian named Maqsood Lodin was being questioned by police in Berlin. He had recently returned from Pakistan via Budapest, Hungary, and then traveled overland to Germany. His interrogators were surprised to find that hidden in his underpants were a digital storage device and memory cards.
I bet they thought they were pretty clever, hiding their islamic terrorist plots in western hedonistic pleasure-seeking blasphemy. This actually reminds me of a Tom Clancy book I read recently where the terrorists encoded their messages in picture files on Flicker or something.
They needn't have bothered targeting cruise ships though, we are doing just fine crashing them on our own.
OTOH, I always wonder why info like this gets released. If the intel was such a goldmine, why are we telling everyone about it? Either we are very, very successful at intercepting such plots and can afford to throw some info to the media for PR purposes, or somebody is just desperate to score PR points by reporting another terrorist plot foiled. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to tell the enemy you have been reading their mail.