US releases new set of Osama bin Laden documents

March 01, 2016 23:25

The US today released new set of documents - mostly in Arabic along with an accompanying English translation that it recovered from the Abbottabad hideout of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a mid-night raid by American commandos in the Pakistani town.

This is the second tranche to be released. The first tranche was released on May 20, 2015.

The additional declassified material released today reflect on a range of topics, including reporting fissures between AQ and AQ in Iraq and Osama's concern about the group's public image -- and his desire to depict it as a united organisation.

According to Director of National Intelligence, which released these documents, in the period shortly before his death, Osama placed the utmost importance on portraying his fraying organization as a united enterprise -- while his lieutenants privately wrestled with their growing schism from al-Qaeda in Iraq.

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