Police: Muslim terrorists linked to child porn
The Times of London is reporting that police in Britain and elsewhere in Europe have discovered a link between Muslim terrorist plots and hardcore child pornography.
A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain.
Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.
[. . .]
British security sources confirmed that such a link had been discovered in several cases. They noted the contradiction between people supposedly devoted to theocracy and Islamic fundamentalism and their use of child pornography. “It shows that these people are very confused,” a source said. “Here they are hating Western decadence but actually making use of it and finding that they enjoy this stuff.”
“Confused” seems to me a naive characterisation of Muslim terrorists who use child porn to pass information. “Evil” comes to mind.
[...] POLICE: Muslim terrorists linked to child porn …. [...]
This is transparently ludicrous rubbish – why use illegal images when they could use wedding photos or LOLcats? – and it defies rational thought that the Home Office spinmeisters could think this one would pass uncommented.
See the reader comments on the original Times story – they all think it’s idiocy too.
I wrote a blog rant on it – http://tiny.cc/QAm8c – but I’m not sure it’s clear it’s a parody of an actual ridiculous assertion.
You may be right, David, but The Times appears to take the story seriously.