VANCOUVER -- Laptops seized from a pair of accused B.C. terrorists were packed with extremist literature, recordings of the Qur'an and concealed files with instructions on building and setting off bombs, a trial has heard.
On Wednesday, an RCMP forensic computer expert showed a jury the contents of two laptops taken from John Nuttall and Amanda Korody hours after they allegedly dropped off homemade pressure-cooker explosives on the provincial legislature grounds in the early hours of Canada Day in 2013.
On one of the computers, Cpl. Barry Salt logged into an account titled Mujahid -- Arabic for holy warrior.
The home screen's black background was decorated with an Islamic creed written in flowing white script above the silhouette of a gun and the words "Support Our Troops."
The computer contained files ranging from Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" to various issues of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, as well as text documents titled The CIA's Book of Dirty Tricks, and The Satanic Bible.
At one point, Salt traced a hard-to-follow pathway of file folders to reveal a stash of links and text documents.
They included diary-like entries that described the writer's conversion to Islam, as well as a digital copy of "The Anarchist's Cookbook," a 1970s counterculture publication that includes a do-it-yourself guide on making and detonating explosives.
"Being that this was saved in quite an obscure path stands out to me as it may perhaps have been hidden or out of the easy-to-find realm," Salt told B.C. Supreme Court.
Icons for various violent video games could be made out on the computers' desktops, including several versions each of the shooting games Counter-Strike, Quake, Half-Life and Doom.
During the tour, a window called Islamic Finder would pop up, highlighting Muslim prayer times for various locations around the world.
Court has heard that Nuttall and Korody recently converted to Islam and were eager to take part in what they described as the war between Muslims and the western world.
They were arrested after a months-long undercover police sting and have both pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges.
