Never before seen bin Laden documents published
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Posted: 05/03/2012
WASHINGTON - The world can now read the last words of Osama bin Laden as he struggled to command the attention of his far-flung terror network.
A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on bin Laden's house in Pakistan were released to the public at 9 a.m. Thursday by the Army's Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy.
You can read the documents in their entirety here.
The correspondence shows a leader revered but sometimes ignored by field commanders, who dismissed him as out of touch even as he urged them to keep attacking U.S. targets.
White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan said this week that bin Laden's own words confirm that America is safer with him gone.
Brennan says bin Laden wrote of his worries that his leaders were being killed so quickly the group would not survive.
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