Osama bin Laden Computer Hard Drives, Pokerstars & Possible CIA Cover Up

Almost three months ago on February 10, 2011, Barry's New Conversations did a cheeky philosophical speculation about bin Laden and/or his aids playing Texas hold'em on Pokerstars.net online poker site. Well it turned out to be accurate. On April 15, 2011 Pokerstars was shut down by the Feds. The persistent rumors have the trusted courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwati, to bin Laden as a frequent online poker player on Pokerstars web site. The feds got info from Pokerstar executive Australian Daniel Tzvetkoff about the whereabouts of bin Laden's poker playing courier that led to the safe house in Abbottabad. The rest is history.

Besides the death of OBL , the C.I.A netted his computer and stacks of hard drives. The C.I.A. should go public with all the information on the drives before the concerned people in the al Qaeda web can adjust and go undergound in another venue. But I don't think that will happen because I suspect that many names on bin Laden's hard drives would be embarrassing to the C.I.A. and others who one would not associate with OBL's circle intimately or obliquely.

Whether it be poker or terrorism, the C.I.A. can play both.

Cityville, Pokerstars & Osama bin Laden

I wonder if from time to time Osama bin laden or some of his followers play a few hands of Texas Hold'em on Pokerstars. com? (Do C.I.A operatives use agency slush funds to play?) Does North Korea's Kim Jong Il or any of his cadre participate in Zynga's Farmville? Would it be hopeful that they did? Or would it be more hopeful that the popularity of these two social network sites would gradully decline in popularity to be replaced with a renewed interest in real world?

P.S. The German stock exchange has made a $25 billion dollar for the New York Stock Exchange. That price is about half of the valuation that Goldman Sachs placed on Facebook! Should Facebook make a counter offer to the NYSE or should Facebook be a short sale on its stock offering debut?