The United States recovered what it described as its largest cache of terrorist electronic intelligence since the September 11, 2001 attacks during a recent counterterrorism operation in Nigeria, according to Sebastian Gorka, the US senior director for Counterterrorism.
Gorka said the volume of electronic equipment seized from terrorist camps was so extensive that an additional aircraft was needed to transport the materials out of Nigeria for analysis.
Speaking during a recent podcast, Gorka described the intelligence haul as unprecedented in the post-9/11 era.
“From that raid we brought home, we needed an extra plane to bring home all the electronic material that we captured in those camps,” he said.
“And the haul was three times bigger than any enemy electronics haul since 9-11.”
According to him, intelligence experts are now analysing the recovered devices to understand how the ISIS group communicates and coordinates its operations.
“Now our experts are taking
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