While enjoining jihad on all young Muslims, there was the minor hypocrisy of trying to get his 20-year-old son Hamza to leave insecure Waziristan for the Gulf state of Qatar.
He fussed over command appointments and promotions. He also tried to assert operational control over al Qaeda 's clones and far-flung affiliates, without much apparent success. Osama bin Laden himself preferred euros, but his couriers and money-launderers should always be careful about tiny electronic 'chips' concealed in the bags they used to move cash.įrom these letters it is clear that bin Laden saw himself as the grand strategist of the global jihad. When money changed hands was another major vulnerability. He even urges al Qaeda supporters in North Africa to plant more trees to conceal them from all-seeing satellites and pilotless drones. Again and again he worries about aerial surveillance, telling them to stick to tree cover or to only venture out when there was dense cloud. Unsurprisingly, counter-surveillance and security concerns figure repeatedly in bin Laden's replies to letters he received from al Qaeda men in the field. In fact, for the last year of his life, a covert CIA surveillance team was observing his house from nearby buildings and the satellites were whirring overhead. surveillance drones seemed to be operating 300kms away, or so bin Laden thought. Couriers would have conveyed them to wherever it was safe to print or email them as attachments. The materials consist of more or less long letters by bin Laden, written between September 2006 and April 2011. A stark warning as ISIS orders 'volcanoes of terror' 03/01/16 it is time to confront the jihadi enemy within. Why does Britain still cosy up to these butchers? MICHAEL BURLEIGH examines the impact of Saudi Arabia's decision to execute 47 prisoners including Shiite cleric 04/01/16.The Sultan and the Tsar: Will the imperial ambitions of Russia's Putin and Turkey's Erdogan spark a new World War, asks historian MICHAEL BURLEIGH 14/02/16.MICHAEL BURLEIGH: The EU’s migrant €6bn deal with Turkey’s despot isn’t just shabby – it’s terrifying 09/03/16.MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Why I despise conman Blair's grubby attempt to spin away Chilcot truths 29/05/16.
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