Link between child porn and terrorism

At first I was pretty surprised to read this article but after giving it some thought I'm not at surprised. After all, one of the main reasons terrorists blow themselves up is to go to 'paradise' and have sex with 72 virgins. So, sex is intimately linked with suicide bombing. Add the fact that islam allows men to marry girls from the age of 6 and consummate the marriage when the girl is 9.

In fact, one of the most popular google search terms that directs users to this site is 'hijab sex'. Most of the users entering this search term are from Turkey. Times

A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain.

Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists. [...]

Officers have noted that child sex abuse images have been found during investigations into some of the most advanced suspected plots. However, it is understood that the proposed research project was never implemented because the AntiTerrorism Branch was overwhelmed by the sheer number of cases it was having to deal with.

It is not clear whether the terrorists were more interested in the material for personal gratification or were drawn to child porn networks as a secure means of sending messages. In one case fewer than a dozen images were found; in another, 40,000.