Thumb drives can be informative..
The begining of the end of Al-Q???
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Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie also estimated that a large number of U.S.-led forces will leave Iraq by the end of this year, and a majority will be gone by the end of next year. "And maybe the last soldier will leave Iraq by mid-2008," he said.
Al-Rubaie said a laptop, flashdrive and other documents were found in the debris after the airstrike that killed the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader last week outside Baqouba, and more information has been uncovered in raids of other insurgent hideouts since then.
He called it a "huge treasure ... a huge amount of information."
When asked how he could be sure the information was authentic, al-Rubaie said "there is nothing more authentic than finding a thumbdrive in his pocket."
"We believe that this is the beginning of the end of al-Qaeda in Iraq," al-Rubaie said, adding that the documents showed al-Qaeda is in "pretty bad shape," politically and in terms of training, weapons and media.
"Now we have the upper hand," he said, speaking in English and Arabic at a news conference in Baghdad. "We feel that we know their locations, the names of their leaders, their whereabouts, their movements, through the documents we found during the last few days."
"They did not anticipate how powerful the Iraqi security forces are and how the government is on the attack now," al-Rubaie said, expressing optimism that the government would be able "to destroy al-Qaeda and to finish this terrorist organization in Iraq."
He said the documents, which he promised to release gradually after investigations were finished, would reveal details about the inner workings of the terror group and show how "al-Qaeda is using everyone as a pawn to play in this wargame, in this game of killing Iraqi people and destroying this country."
They "will show how their central strategy is to divide and destroy," he said.
, I happen to be in JAx, Fla teaching a computer forensics class this week and we talked about thumb drives and how you can recover all the deleted images and files from them using the right HW/SW combonations. We recovered images from one students thumb drive that were 5 years old!! And he thought that they had been gone for good. 
