Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda: Lessons from the Abbottabad Documents

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Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda:
Lessons from the Abbottabad Documents
The Navy SEAL team that ended Osama bin Laden's life last May also grabbed a massive collection of digital and physical material from his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Seventeen of the documents the SEALs swept up that night were released earlier this month by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, which also produced a detailed report analyzing and contextualizing the writings by al-Qaeda's most important leader and several of his top lieutenants. The New America Foundation is proud to host the lead author of that report, Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?, for a discussion of the Abbottabad documents and what they tell us about the past and future of al-Qaeda.
Participants
Featured Speaker
Nelly Lahoud
Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Senior Associate, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
Moderator
Brian Fishman
Counterterrorism Research Fellow
New America Foundation
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@terencewinters2154 3 жыл бұрын

Stalin was a great critic of the czars but was more brutal than them when he came to governance.

@user-go7in7rw7r 5 ай бұрын

Eu quero essas cartas e uma cópia desses HDS

@user-go7in7rw7r 5 ай бұрын

Será que as pessoas no avião do iran 655 eram diferentes das pessoas nos aviões do Bin Laden?

@terencewinters2154 3 жыл бұрын

Eric hofers " true believer" identifies some characteristics of fanatical people though western in orientation it's still important. Also the " mystics of islam " book identifies a type who will stave in the boat all are in. Zawahiri still with an unlisted phone number ?

@hoss-lk4bg 3 жыл бұрын

wheres my dry cleaning

@mortalclown3812 2 жыл бұрын

Shoo.

@1798UnitedIrishMen 11 жыл бұрын

Now please tell me how you figure the IRA killed two thousand civilians. Then I would like you to show me a link to were you get this knowledge that nobody else knows about LOL

@BK-uf6qr 15 күн бұрын

Strange phenomenon when “Experts” pontificate about topics like this. Turning bin Laden documents into an academic project, like a college course is odd. Extrapolating from documents is foolhardy. The Starbucks academics and their rigid conclusions should be challenged and approached skeptically. A slice of information is just that. There is a comfort level now that bin laden himself is gone. There’s no way to challenge this retrospective assumptions.

@user-go7in7rw7r 5 ай бұрын

O primeiro mandamento da Bíblia é não matarás, viu Kkkk

@manuelcastaneda1888 2 жыл бұрын

Bin Laden lives in the hearts of any who will not sleep till empiricism is shaded be nuclear shadow. God bless.

@KeithWilliamMacHendry 2 жыл бұрын

You are a BawBag!

@LAK_770 2 жыл бұрын

You mean imperialism. Empiricism means 'fact based in tested observations'. Al Qaeda was never about imperialism, that was a convenient sound byte. It was about Jihad, it was about continuing the legacy of lunatic religious violence that Muhammad started when he moved to Medina, and establishing a medieval dystopia of Sharia law. Al Qaeda don't even try to hide this, they literally publish a magazine outlining their views and goals. It's about religion, it's about killing infidels, it's about Sharia, it always was and it always will be.

@rebukeme 7 ай бұрын

@@LAK_770jeezus dude wake up 🤡

@smitty2330 11 жыл бұрын

Actually sir i disagree, you term terrorist is a loosely used term. I see that your name is UnitedIrisMen so I feel you might have some positive feelings about the IRA. You call us terrorists but the IRA are just as guilty of killing innocent people as we, are as Al-Queda is. War is war my friend to be blinded by a fog of ignorance to the fact that innocent people die is foolish. War has casualties some unintended. No here in the US intends on hurting civilians but War is war.