CIA released journal as part of 470000 documents collected from Bin Laden’s house,showing he visited the UK as a teenager and found it to be ‘decadent’A summer trip to the UK as a teenager and visits to Shakespeare’s birthplace convinced Osama bin Laden that the west was “decadent, the late leader of al-Qaida and architect of the 9/11 attacks wrote in his personal journal shortly before he was killed by US special forces in 2011.
The journal is among 470000 documents collected from the house where Bin Laden died that were released by the CIA on Wednesday. The agency said it had released the treasure trove “in the interest of transparency and to enhance public understanding of al-Qaida and [bin Laden].”nowadays we released nearly 470000 files recovered in 2011 raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s compound in Abbottabad, and Pakistan.https://t.co/QZcoAu3uEw pic.twitter.com/Dn8awV9ndn Related: Isis captures territory around former Bin Laden stronghold in Afghanistan Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com