Osama Bin Laden documents released

[Sher Malang]

Newly released papers from Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan hideout reveal a frustrated al-Qaeda leader struggling to revive a fraying network.

The documents seized during the raid on the Abbottabad compound were posted online by the US Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.

The papers include communication between Bin Laden and his associates, and his hand-written diary.

Seventeen documents were released from a cache of more than 6,000.
'Formidable event'

This week, the US marked one year since the death of Bin Laden.

The 175-page cache of documents published on Thursday date from September 2006 to April 2011 and include letters from other al-Qaeda leaders.

They shed light on Bin Laden's concerns that Muslims were being alienated by the ideology of jihad.

He advised against attacks within the Islamic world, and instead urged focus on the US. Some papers also suggest that the group had a strained relationship with Iran and no explicit reference to any institutional support from Pakistan.

And in a letter from April 2011, Bin Laden discusses the Arab Spring, calling it a "formidable event" in the history of Muslims.

Earlier this week, White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan said the cache reinforced the view that the US was safer without him.

He said that Bin Laden had confessed to "disaster after disaster" against his network in the papers, and that the Saudi militant had considered changing al-Qaeda's name.

Source: BBC News - Osama Bin Laden documents released

 

[Awesome]

lol @ no specific support from institution from Pakistan. As much of some people want to portray Pakistan as the villain we too are glad he is dead - we would have been happier if he was caught alive and could give testimony about our involvement. Regardless, our only gripe is that we weren't allowed to take him out and the US sullied our name forever by going at it alone. It is no small complaint, we hold the US criminally responsible for its actions.

Moreover we cannot accept a US operation for the simple fact that we don't want to encourage the US to conduct such Ops on our soil. Our people want to go to war with the US for continuously sending drones to attack our territory you can imagine what is our point of view on US sending choppers and SF deep into our territory.

This is a poor way of discussing things, you guys are throwing dirt on Pakistan just for the sake of doing so. No proof, heck there is negating evidence since we have fought this man and his ideology and lost 30,000 lives in the process.

People owe us an apology many times over. After taking sacrifices in lives of 30,000, just because of one incident where we didn't deliver, we are being persecuted and harassed by the WoT community.

 

[fd24]

The logic way to deduce what the fact and fiction would be to release all relevant documents rather than being selective and releasing certain pages. What does that achieve? More speculation and potential conspiracy theories.
This i believe is another way for the USA to passify and gain support in their irrational approach in Afghanistan.
Either be 100% honest - or frankly don't leave it as we don't buy it

 

[regular]

By releasing the selected documents USA is giving cheap publicity to the terrorism. Proves that US is sincere in spreading more terroism within this world instead of getting rid of it.....US wants to support OBL agenda once again within the world......

 

[Boobytrap]

When the Pakistani General was all going hammer and tongs explaining why Osama cannot be in pakistan to the world, just then Osama was gunned down near the GHQ of pakistani forces.. now how can a sane person not think of a relationship between elements in PA and Osama ?

 

[JayAtl]

I guess some think because there was no specific letter found with the words ISI is helping us , it absolves Pakistanis as being complicit in hiding him. Sometime back was there not an ex general who said Pakistan ( some folks in the govt or military) knew about his whereabouts.

Of course nothing to say how it defies, what I know as the most inquisitive of neighbors in the world ( Indians and Pakistanis) having no clue about a huge mansion and its occupants for close to 7 years! ~ smack a mile away from Pakistan's version of West Point. Mind you this not a country where a mansion is a common site.