TOTAL FILTH: A trove of porn — plus a supply of herbal Viagra — was discovered in the Pakistan hideout where Osama bin Laden watched TV and hid from the world. (AP; AFP/Getty Images (inset))
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It wasn’t just plots to kill Americans that got a rise out of him.
It turns out that terror titan Osama bin Laden had a stash of smut to liven up his lair.
Investigators poring over the tons of files, computer drives and other recordings hauled out of bin Laden’s million-dollar bunker in Abbottabad, Pakistan, discovered a triple-X-rated porn collection “of modern, electronically recorded video” that is “fairly extensive,” it was reported yesterday.
It may have been just what the terror chief needed to rev up for the three wives he lived with in the hideaway that Navy SEALs stormed May 2, killing him with two shots.
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The SEALs also found a supply of herbal Viagra — a wild oat extract known as Avena syrup — at bin Laden’s bedside.
The XXX-rated flicks were found on the 100 thumb drives, DVDs and computer discs, along with 10 computer hard drives and five computers that the SEALs removed from bin Laden’s compound after killing him.
Everything about the secret life of the world’s No. 1 terrorist was at odds with his public persona.
While his jihad followers lived in caves and dodged drone strikes, bin Laden darkened his graying beard, and obsessively monitored his mentions in the media — and likely took in a good peep show.
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The US officials said they can’t yet say for certain if bin Laden himself viewed the smutty images or if they were downloaded by one his cohorts, his two sons living with him — or any of the hangers-on who visited the compound and ran errands for him.
Bin Laden’s compound didn’t have Internet access, but he would send couriers with flash drives to download e-mails and other information at Internet cafes, sources said.
But the porn trove puts an end to the pious image he portrayed.
Islamic scholars consider porn forbidden based on several edicts in the Koran that expressly prohibit “shameful acts be they open or secret.”
In fact, possession of porn in Pakistan is punishable by a fine and up to three months in prison.
The revelation that bin Laden had pornography undermines the message he was trying to send to his followers, said Robert Strang, former co-chair of the New York state Legislature 9/11 task force.
“He was inspirational to them [his adherents] in a big way. And the more that comes out about him, the more it shows that he’s not the man they thought he was,” he said.
But some terrorism watchers question whether bin Laden was actually a dirty old man — or whether the leak is simply an attempt to undermine his legacy.
“This is going to backfire. No one is really prepared to believe it,” said Scott Atran, an al Qaeda expert and visiting professor at the John Jay College Center on Terrorism.
Bin Laden also wanted to assassinate President Obama, according to an analysis of the million pages of data recovered from his compound, ABC News reported.
Bin Laden was fixated on killing Obama or somehow disrupting the 2012 elections.
In Pakistan, US intelligence officials finally got a chance to question bin Laden’s three widows who survived the shootout at the compound.
They were, not surprisingly, “hostile” to their American interlocutors, CNN reported.