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Found inside ISIS terror chap's laptop: CELINE DION tunes

REPORT: Stash of terrorist material found in Syria Dell box

The worst thing you'll find on most chaps' laptops is a bit of porn and perhaps a pirated copy of Microsoft Office. But, according to a recent report, if you peer inside the hard drive of a rabid ISIS zealot, you'll find recipes for bubonic plague, instructions on extracting ricin from castor beans and – most terrifyingly of all – a variety of syrupy songs by Canadian caterwauler Celine Dion.

Foreign Policy magazine has taken a peek into a black Dell laptop found within an Islamic State safehouse in Syria. It is reportedly owned by Muhammed S, a Tunisian physics and chemistry student who has pledged allegiance to the Islamist fighters.

It was packed full of speeches by jihadi recruiters, diatribes by Neo-Nazis and even leaked US Army manuals on how to conduct warfare in various nasty ways.

The laptop apparently also contains fascinating peeks into the 24-year-old owner's pre-jihad life, when his main goal in life was finding a decent recipe for banana mousse and his favourite musician was the afore-mentioned singer of My Heart Will Go On.

Sadly, he abandoned his childish ways in 2009 and started compiling all sorts of nasty content, with a particular focus on poisons.

All in all, he gathered 146 gigabytes of material amounting to 35,347 files, most of which were not password protected. In one folder marked "explosives", he collected a number of charming publications with titles like How to Make Semtex, Chemistry and Technology of Explosives and CIA Improvised Sabotage Devices.

In concerning news for anyone following the Scottish independence referendum, this folder also contained a book by William Wallace titled A Guide to Field-Manufactured Explosives.

One text by Abdel Aziz, author of the The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook, warned that making poisons is "much, much more dangerous than preparing explosives". "I know several [jihadists] whose bodies are finished due to poor protection," he warned. "On the positive side, you can be confident that the poisons have actually been tried and tested (successfully, he he!)."

The laptop also included speeches by more than 100 jihadi ideologues and advice on how to avoid the attention of the authorities. ®

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