US releases documents recovered in Osama bin Laden raid
US government on Wednesday in Washington released a list of now declassified
documents recovered during the 2011 raid on al- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ’s compound in Pakistan.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the list of documents
contained hundreds of letters to family members and associates as well as
statements on anti - government demonstrations in Egypt.
It said the documents include the wars in Afghanistan , Iraq and other current
events and series of list of reading materials found in the compound.
It said these included the US government-commissioned report on the September 11, 2001 , terrorist attacks, indictments against terrorist suspects, a book by Noam Chomsky and dozens of English -language books dealing with conspiracy theories.
It said the documents also included 19 publications about France and notes on
the German economy.
It said President Barack Obama has called for the intelligence community to
review documents for release , as part of a bid to increase transparency within
the intelligence community.
The office said hundreds of more documents would also be reviewed for possible release.
“ All documents whose publication will not hurt ongoing operations against al-
Qaeda or their affiliates will be released , ” it added.
Bin Laden was killed in the May 2011 raid by US Navy Seals on the compound
where he had been hiding in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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