Stephen F. Hayes And Thomas Joscelyn, Wall Street Journal: How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise
The White House portrait of a crumbling terror group is contradicted by documents seized in the bin Laden raid
In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of a mysterious compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The team’s mission, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, had two primary objectives: capture or kill Osama bin Laden and gather as much intelligence as possible about the al Qaeda leader and his network. A bullet to bin Laden’s head accomplished the first; the quick work of the Sensitive Site Exploitation team accomplished the second.
It was quite a haul: 10 hard drives, nearly 100 thumb drives and a dozen cellphones. There were DVDs, audio and video tapes, data cards, reams of handwritten materials, newspapers and magazines. At a Pentagon briefing days after the raid, a senior military intelligence official described it as “the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever.”
WNU Editor: This Wall Street Journal commentary is under a pay-wall subscription, but if you put the title of this commentary "How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise" for Google to search and you click on the link that it finds, it will permit you to get the story to look at for only one time. As to the WSJ editorial itself .... I find it astounding that of the one and a half million documents and files that were seized from Osama Bin Laden's home .... only 17 documents have been publicized .... and that we have had to accept the White House administration's line that Al Qaeda was on the demise.
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