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   Recovered ISIS militants' laptops filled with 80% porn: former US officer

Recovered ISIS militants' laptops filled with 80% porn: former US officer

: AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : Jul 16, 2016, 12:41 pm IST
Updated : Jul 16, 2016, 12:41 pm IST

Last year, ex-London mayor Boris Johnson had also linked jihadists to pornography.

(Representational Image)
 (Representational Image)

Last year, ex-London mayor Boris Johnson had also linked jihadists to pornography.

Washington

: In a shocking disclosure, a former US intelligence officer has revealed that the laptops seized from Islamic State militants are filled with pornographic material, besides violence and beheading videos.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, ex-chief of the Defence Intelligence Agency said that these porn films encourage ISIS militants to carry out brutal executions as well as rapes.

Flynn, who is also a potential running mate for US presidential hopeful Donald trump, said that the only way to stop ISIS attacks is to gather more and more information about the terror group and crackdown on their communication channels.

a Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, ex-chief of the Defence Intelligence Agency. (Photo: AP) Flynn's revelations and views on the terror group were published in the German newspaper -- Bild.

He wrote, “We looked a ruthless enemy in the eye - women and children, girls and boys, raped and exploited, the beheadings stored on a laptop next to pornography. 'At one point we actually had determined that the material on the laptops was up to 80 per cent pornography.”

However, this is not the first time someone has alleged ISIS militants of watching porn.

Last year, ex-London mayor Boris Johnson had linked jihadists to pornography stating that homegrown fanatics from the UK who join ISIS to become militants watch porn because of failed or missing relationships. Explaining his point further, Johnson said that British extremists tend to get radicalised sooner because of their poor relationship with women as they start feeling like losers.

Proving Flynn's stand on ISIS militants watching porn, US officials said that after 9/11 attacks on the US, it had been reported that the terrorists visited strip clubs, paid for lap dancers and even met prostitutes in motel rooms across Las Vegas, Boston and Florida.

(This story originally appeared on Deccan Chronicle)