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National Security Archive Update, May 2, 2011
The Osama Bin Laden File
Washington, D.C., May 2, 2011 - The Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin
Laden, killed in Pakistan by U.S. special operations forces
yesterday, ranked as "one of the most significant financial
sponsors of Islamic terrorist activities in the world" as early as
1996, according to declassified U.S. documents posted on the web
today by the National Security Archive at George Washington
University (www.nsarchive.org).
The Bin Laden File includes the CIA's 1996 biographic sketch, the
infamous President's Daily Brief from 6 August 2001 warning "Bin
Ladin Determined to Strike in US," a State Department issue paper
from 2005 reporting that "some Taliban leaders operate with
relative impunity in some Pakistan cities," the 400-page Sandia
National Laboratories profile of Bin Laden focusing on the 1998
U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the 2006 State
Department cable on the Taliban's regrouping in Pakistan's tribal
areas making them "a sanctuary beyond the reach of either
Government," the demands made on Pakistan right after 9/11 by
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and the only known
conversation between the U.S. government and the Taliban leader
Mullah Omar.
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