AFP, Washington :
Months before his death, Osama bin Laden fretted about the Islamic State group’s impatient, violent tactics and the fading of Al-Qaeda, documents released by the CIA Thursday showed.
The latest release from the trove of documents found when Navy Seals stormed the Al-Qaeda chief’s secret Pakistan compound and killed him in 2011 show bin Laden trying to keep his jihadist followers around the world aligned in his war against the United States.
They also reveal a worried father warning his sons that they could be injected with electronic chips to track them, and advising Al-Qaeda soldiers in Northern Africa that it was okay to masturbate.
He also spent significant time trying to manage the handling of foreigners kidnapped by far-flung affiliates of his radical Islamic group. And he showed a strong focus on affairs in his family’s original homeland, Yemen, where a powerful new branch-Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) — was having a strong impact.
One letter to AQAP founder Nasir al-Wuhayshi warns not to move too fast against the government because conditions were not yet right anywhere to form an Islamic state that could govern effectively and resist attacks from outside.
Months before his death, Osama bin Laden fretted about the Islamic State group’s impatient, violent tactics and the fading of Al-Qaeda, documents released by the CIA Thursday showed.
The latest release from the trove of documents found when Navy Seals stormed the Al-Qaeda chief’s secret Pakistan compound and killed him in 2011 show bin Laden trying to keep his jihadist followers around the world aligned in his war against the United States.
They also reveal a worried father warning his sons that they could be injected with electronic chips to track them, and advising Al-Qaeda soldiers in Northern Africa that it was okay to masturbate.
He also spent significant time trying to manage the handling of foreigners kidnapped by far-flung affiliates of his radical Islamic group. And he showed a strong focus on affairs in his family’s original homeland, Yemen, where a powerful new branch-Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) — was having a strong impact.
One letter to AQAP founder Nasir al-Wuhayshi warns not to move too fast against the government because conditions were not yet right anywhere to form an Islamic state that could govern effectively and resist attacks from outside.
