• Comment  Bin Laden: Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind  Documents
reveal al Qaeda founder had lost control  May 3, 2012 RSS Feed
Print Osama bin Laden  A man, identified as Osama bin Laden,
watches President Barack Obama on his television.  Osama bin
Laden was long the most-wanted person on the planet. He was the
maestro of the 9/11 attacks, and the commander of the world's
most lethal and feared terrorist syndicate. Yet, documents taken
from his Pakistan hideout reveal bin Laden had become anything
but.  An Army analysis of 17 letters and other documents
uncovered inside the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden was
killed by SEALs reveal a frustrated terrorist leader who had
lost control of the movement he helped launch, and who was
increasingly frustrated by the actions of new al Qaeda cells.
"Bin Laden was not, as many thought, the puppet master pulling
the strings that set in motion jihadi groups around the world,"
states an Army-led analysis of the documents released Thursday.
In fact, as the U.S. war on terror