Pakistan’s economy is almost entirely dependent on American taxpayers. The Pakistani military submits claims every month to the US Embassy in Islamabad and receipts are neither provided nor requested. Most of this money goes to fund the Taliban and al-Qaeda. And they need that money: In the May 16 edition of the New Yorker, Lawrence Wright says that "In a country of a hundred and eighty million people, fewer than two million pay taxes and Pakistan’s leaders are doing little to change the situation."
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Computers taken from an Italian mosque reveal that pornographic images were used to conceal coded messages about 911. Images of the World Trade Center were hidden in temporary files on one of the computers at a mosque in Milan that was frequented by terrorists. This and similar images were imbedded inside pornographic pictures before they were sent to other al-Qaeda cells, in a process known as steganography.

Several terrorists who used the computers are now on trial in Milan, and these images are evidence that they knew about the 911 highjackings before they occurred. The hard drives of all the computers had been erased, but computer experts were able to reconstruct them.
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