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At precisely the time Mr. Obama was campaigning on the imminent death of al Qaeda, those with access to the bin Laden documents were seeing, in bin Laden’s own words, that the opposite was true. Says Lt. Gen. Flynn: “By that time, they probably had grown by about—I’d say close to doubling by that time. And we knew that.” This wasn’t what the Obama White House wanted to hear. So the administration cut off DIA access to the documents and instructed DIA officials to stop producing analyses based on them. Even this limited glimpse into the broader set of documents...

On the eleventh anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s attack on America, it’s worthwhile to examine just what he hoped to accomplish. He spelled out his goals in three documents: a 1996 fatwa titled, “Declaration of War Against The Americans Occupying The Land of the Two Holy Places”; a 2002 “Letter to America”; and a 2004 video. In these manifestos, he declared his willingness to die, of course. His goals included: “Terrorizing” Americans; Demoralizing US troops; Weakening and destruction of Israel; Unification of Muslims throughout the Middle East via “democratic” establishment of Shariah law in “governments of our countries which act...

Afghan trio released By Janullah Hashimzada March 10, 2003 AMERICAN forces have released three Afghans after questioning them at a US detention facility in Afghanistan about al-Qaeda's fugitive chief, Osama bin Laden, and renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an official said. The three men, a former Afghan security official and two local Taliban leaders, were freed on Saturday, said Inayat Jamil, an official in the office of governor of Kunar, Afghanistan's eastern province. After their release, a US helicopter flew the Afghans to Asadabad, Kunar's capital, from Bagram, the headquarters for US military in Afghanistan, just north of capital Kabul. One...

<p>An ominous new threat against the U.S. appears on a Web site and claims to be from an Al Qaeda spokesman.</p> <p>It says the U.S. has killed thousands of people in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, and other places.</p> <p>And so, it reads: "We have the right to kill four million Americans, including one million children," and it says, "we have the right to fight them by chemical and biological weapons so they catch the fatal and unusual diseases Muslims have caught due to U.S. chemical and biological weapons."</p>