Headline Roundup • May 20th, 2015
Bin Laden Docs Released
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Los Angeles Times
The public release, the most expansive since the raid, suggests that the now-dead Al Qaeda leader had eclectic interests and closely followed U.S. policy and operations relating to the terrorist network he founded.
Hunkered down in his Pakistani compound, Osama bin Laden pleaded with his followers to stay focused on attacking the United States instead of being dragged into Muslim infighting.
Documents that were declassified on Wednesday shed new light on the mindset of al-Qaida's founder, his debates over tactics, his anxiety over Western spying and his fixation with the group's media image.
"The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people and their representatives," the late Al-Qaeda figurehead wrote.
The letter was among thousands of files found by US Navy...
CNN Digital
(CNN)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 t
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