WASHINGTON (AP) — During his years in hiding, Osama bin Laden urged followers to concentrate on attacking Americans and wrote bittersweet letters to one of his wives and his children, according to documents released by U.S. intelligence officials.
The documents include a fill-in-the-blanks job application for terrorist candidates that ranges from typical questions about education and hobbies to "Do you wish to execute a suicide operation?"
The documents were seized in the al-Qaida leader's compound during the 2011 raid in which bin Laden was killed. More than 100 were declassified andmade public.
Among the news items was was a clipping from the Tulsa World. It dealt with terrorism charges against David Headley. He is a former DEA informant tied to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He has no known correction to Tulsa.
Altogether, the 103 papers and videos add new texture to the world's picture of the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, much of it in his own words. They include videos and images of letters in Arabic, with the English translations by intelligence officials.