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Secrets of the bin Laden treasure-trove


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In his final years hiding in a compound in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was a man who at once showed great love and interest in his own family while he coldly drew up quixotic plans for mass casualty attacks on Americans, according to documents seized by Navy SEALs the night he was killed.

 

On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unprecedented number of documents  from what U.S. officials have described as the treasure-trove picked up by the SEALs at bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011.

 

 

 

Totaling 103 documents, they include the largest repository of correspondence ever released between members of bin Laden's immediate family and significant communications between bin Laden and other leaders of al Qaeda as well as al Qaeda's communications with terrorist groups around the Muslim world.

Also released was a list of bin Laden's massive digital collection of English-language books, think tank reports and U.S. government documents, numbering 266 in total.

To the end bin Laden remained obsessed with attacking Americans. In an undated letter he told jihadist militants in North Africa that they should stop "insisting on the formation of an Islamic state" and instead attack U.S. embassies in Sierra Leone and Togo and American oil companies. Bin Laden offered similar advice to the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, telling it to avoid targeting Yemeni police and military targets and instead prioritize attacks on American targets.

Much of bin Laden's advice either didn't make it to these groups or was simply ignored because al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and North Africa continued to attack local targets.

ISIS, of course, didn't exist at the time bin Laden was writing. The group, which now controls a large swath of territory in the Middle East, grew out of al Qaeda in Iraq and has charted a different path, seeking to create an Islamic state and not prioritizing attacks on the United States and its citizens.

Taken together, these documents and reading materials paint a complex, nuanced portrait of the world's most wanted man in the years before he was killed in the raid on his compound.

In the letters that bin Laden exchanged with his many sons and daughters, he emerges as a much-loved and admired father who doted on his children. And in a letter he sent to one of his wives, he even comes off as a lovelorn swain.

That's in sharp contrast to the letters bin Laden sent to al Qaeda leaders that demanded mass casualty attacks against American targets and insisted that al Qaeda affiliates in the Middle East stop wasting their time on attacks against local government targets. "The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people," bin Laden emphasized.

 

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Bin Laden watches TV at his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound in a frame grab from an undated video from the Pentagon.

 

Source  http://edition.cnn.com/

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By 2000, Bin Laden and associates had brought Afghanistan's opium production levels down to just about zero%. After 2003, however, Afghanistan's opium production levels rose to just about 95%.

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well said john not everyones asleep,,,funny thing is in the old days the newspapers were good,,,,,,,,4 wipeing your botty,,,but now 4get it,,it give you cancer of the ringpiece all that radioactice ink no good     listen watch digest,,,,bbc reported wt7 fell 20 minutes before it did,,,no lies just the trueth     

 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm     remember that guys words,,,we gave the order to pull it,,,,,,,

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well said john not everyones asleep,,,funny thing is in the old days the newspapers were good,,,,,,,,4 wipeing your botty,,,but now 4get it,,it give you cancer of the ringpiece all that radioactice ink no good     listen watch digest,,,it did,,,no lies just the trueth     

 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm     remember that guys words,,,we gave the order to pull it,,,,,,,

 

Are you f***ing retarded?

 

Legitimate question.

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with a lot of ed u ma kation and training i guess i could be,,,,,,pass the toilet sorry pass the newspaper over i like a good read when on the john :rolleyes:

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are you deluded sid legal ?    

recomend night school   keep drinking your fluoridated water m8

 

:rolleyes:

Don't forget the government controlling your thoughts through chem trails.

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lol gib dont talk about the chemtrails,,,,,,,its top secret  

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Are you...Wow. I was being sarcastic.

 

Also, this is a period: .

This is a comma: ,

 

They have different uses. Might want to look into that

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