Osama bin Ladens handwritten journal

November 02, 2017 10:47

The CIA has released hundreds of thousands of documents, images, and computer files recovered during the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

One of the newly-available files is a handwritten, 228-page journal kept by Osama bin Laden himself.

The Arabic-language notebook, which can be viewed above, contains the al Qaeda master's private reflections on the world and al Qaeda's place in it. Some of the pages contain bin Laden's thoughts on the 2011 Arab uprisings, which bin Laden wanted his men to capitalize on. Read more

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