The US has declassified and released a collection of the documents that Navy SEALs recovered during the 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan that ended in the Al Qaeda leader’s death. The declassified letters, books, articles, and technical documents certainly a suggest a man keeping up with the world.
The US has declassified and released a collection of the documents that Navy SEALs recovered during the 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan that ended in the Al Qaeda leader’s death. The declassified letters, books, articles, and technical documents certainly a suggest a man keeping up with the world.
The English-language books in particular present a fascinating picture of Bin Laden’s interests, including journalist Bob Woodward $WWD’s account of president Obama’s wars—conflicts that Bin Laden was largely responsible for. His library while in seclusion also included anti-globalization tomes by Noam Chomsky and John Perkins, conspiracist fodder in books on the supposed Committee of 300 and MKUltra, the CIA’s psychological warfare program, and even materials alleging that the Bush administration had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks—which Bin Laden presumably resented.
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Interest in these documents increased after a recently-published story by the famed investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, alleged that the Obama administration’s account of Bin Laden’s killing was largely false, and specifically questioned whether the information gathered actually indicated he remained important to Al Qaeda’s operations.
Herewith, the books found in Bin Laden’s compound:
