Bin Laden Letters

[TheCommandTent]

I am surprised nobody posted about this yet (unless I just missed it)

A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on bin Laden's Pakistan house was posted online Thursday by the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center. The documents show dark days for al-Qaida and its hunkered-down leader after years of attacks by the United States and what bin Laden saw as bumbling within his own organization and its terrorist allies.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/03/bin-laden-last-words-go-online/#ixzz1tr01bzzp

Here is the link to what I believe is the report if you want to read the entire thing

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2012/05/03/pdf-letters-from-abbottabad-bin-ladin-sidelined/

[son_of_montfort]

Apparently Al Qaeda also did not like Fox News, stating that it was imbalanced in its presentation, according to one of those letters. I'm not making that up. I don't know if that is a feather in Fox New's cap or not. 

[MIGMaster]

I thought Fox News was right up there with the National Enquirer when it came to quality journalism ?

[TheCommandTent]

I found it interesting that one of the tactics Bid Laden was advocating for was the igniting of massive wild fires in the US.  I've always thought that if they waited for a dry enough summer they could do some serious damage with several well place wild fires near populated areas.

[Jarhead0331]

Apparently Al Qaeda also did not like Fox News, stating that it was imbalanced in its presentation, according to one of those letters. I'm not making that up. I don't know if that is a feather in Fox New's cap or not.

At least you're in good company... ;D

[son_of_montfort]

Apparently Al Qaeda also did not like Fox News, stating that it was imbalanced in its presentation, according to one of those letters. I'm not making that up. I don't know if that is a feather in Fox New's cap or not.

At least you're in good company... ;D

The letter was written by an American in Al Qaeda (???) but it was worth looking up and reading for the analysis of the US news stations from a terrorist point of view. Apparently they believed CNN was the closest mouthpiece of the US government. MSNBC was the "best" according to Al Qaeda, until they fired Keith Olbermann.

Oh heck... I went and found the link to the excerpt. It is both morbidly funny and chillingly awful at the same time:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/03/media-strategy-what-al-qaeda-thought-of-fox-cnn-abc/

[meadbelly]

I found it interesting that OBL wanted to capitalize on the perception of a war against Islam by renaming AQ into something with Islam in the name. His suggestions were, um, "uninspiring."

His contempt for the guy who tried to blow the SUV in Times Square was interesting, too. OBL chastised the guy for breaking his vow to America.

[spelk]

I must be losing it, or in need of a milky coffee, because I read the title to this thread as "Bin Laden Lattes". I was looking forward to some sales shot of a tall glassed coffee with a chocolate powdered picture of Bin Laden shaken and stencilled into the froth!  :o :-[

[LongBlade]

To me he's just fish food now. I'm not really interested in reading his letters; I'm just pleased the last thing he saw before he died was a Navy SEAL delivering justice.

[son_of_montfort]

To me he's just fish food now. I'm not really interested in reading his letters; I'm just pleased the last thing he saw before he died was a Navy SEAL delivering justice.

From what we have heard, it is likely he didn't see the SEAL team at all. More likely he was watching one of the prodigious amounts of porn they had in that compound.