Osama Files Cia

The release Wednesday of files seized in the 2011 Abbottabad raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout has prompted renewed attention to the former al-Qaida leader. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in the raid six years ago, but his al-Qaida legacy is still the subject of public debate and expert analysis, despite the emergence of an arguably more power...

It's impossible to know whether Osama bin Laden, sequestered in his Abbottabad hideout in Pakistan, ever turned on the DVD player and popped in a documentary he could instantly fact-check: "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?"

In the months before the terrorist attacks of September 2001, the CIA unit dedicated to hunting for Osama bin Laden complained that it was running out of money, and analysts considered the likelihood of catching the terror leader to be extremely low, according to government records published on Tuesday.

The release Wednesday of files seized in the 2011 Abbottabad raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout has prompted renewed attention to the former al-Qaida leader. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in the raid six years ago, but his al-Qaida legacy is still the subject of public debate and expert analysis, despite the emergence of an arguably more power...

It's impossible to know whether Osama bin Laden, sequestered in his Abbottabad hideout in Pakistan, ever turned on the DVD player and popped in a documentary he could instantly fact-check: "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?"

In the months before the terrorist attacks of September 2001, the CIA unit dedicated to hunting for Osama bin Laden complained that it was running out of money, and analysts considered the likelihood of catching the terror leader to be extremely low, according to government records published on Tuesday.