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Inside Osama Bin Laden's hard drive: Bollywood songs, best World Cup goals, Tom and Jerry and more

The CIA on Wednesday made public of around 470,000 files from Bin Laden's computers seized during the May raid at his Abbottabad safehouse.

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A new trove of documents seized during the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden has revealed quite an uncanny side of the Al Qaeda leader.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Wednesday released 470,000 additional files seized in the 2011 US, including letters, videos, audio files and other materials which provides an opportunity to gain further insights into the plans and workings of the terrorist organisation.

In between those horrific graphic videos of suicide bombings and beheadings, there lies a collection of Bollywood numbers by Kuman Sanu, Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik, reported Indian Express.

A report said that there were also videos of Bollywood songs, such as ‘Ajnabee mujhko itna bata’ from the movie 'Pyar Toh Hona Hi' starring  Ajay Devgn and Kajol, the title track of Salman Khan Madhuri Dikshit strrer 'Dil Tera Aashiq' and Udit Narayan’s ‘Tu chand hai poonam ka’ from the 1994 classic 'Jaane Tamanna'. 

Apart from his love for Bollywood music, he also had clips of the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’.

Bin Laden also had short clips of the most watched cartoon series 'Tom & Jerry' and animated movies 'Antz and Cars'. Laden had also stored football videos which include a compilation of the 'Best World Cup' goals featuring Garrincha, Roger Milla and Fernando Torres.

Documents seized during raid also indicated that Osama bin Laden also closely followed developments in Kashmir and the trial of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case, indicated the documents seized during the 2011 US raid on a Pakistani compound that killed the al-Qaeda founder.

The documents revealed that Laden closely followed news related to the arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley and was a regular reader of some of the top Indian publications.

(With agency inputs)

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