CIA Releases Osama Bin Ladin’s Files

Osama bin Laden was a son of the Saudi elite whose radical violent campaign to recreate a seventh-century Muslim empire redefined the threat of terrorism for the 21st century.

He was killed on May 2, 2011, by American military and C.I.A. operatives who tracked him to a compound in Pakistan.

President Obama announced the death in a televised address to the nation from Washington, where it was still late on the night of May 1. "Justice has been done,'' he declared.

The United States had been trying to kill or capture Bin Laden since it launched an invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001. The next month, he escaped from American and Afghan troops at an Afghan mountain redoubt called Tora Bora, near the border with Pakistan. For more than nine years afterward, he remained an elusive, shadowy figure frustratingly beyond the grasp of his pursuers and thought to be hiding somewhere in Pakistan's remote tribal areas and plotting new attacks.

When 

he was hunted down, Bin Laden was killed not in the wilderness but rather in the city of Abbottadad, "U.S.A claimed".

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With today’s release, the information remaining in the Abbottabad collection that has not been released publicly includes materials that are sensitive such that their release would directly damage efforts to keep the nation secure; materials protected by copyright; pornography; malware; and blank, corrupted and duplicate files. For example, some of the material being withheld from public release are the following copyrighted videos:

• Antz
• Batman Gotham Knight
• BBC Great Wildlife Moments
• Biography – Osama bin Laden
• Cars
• Chicken Little
• CNN Presents: World’s Most Wanted
• Final Fantasy VII
• Heroes of Tomorrow
• Home on the Range
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
• In the Footsteps of bin Laden – CNN
• National Geographic: Kung Fu Killers
• National Geographic: Inside the Green Berets
• National Geographic: Predators at War
• National Geographic: World’s Worst Venom
• Peru Civilization
• Resident Evil
• Storm Rider – Clash of the Evils
• The Kremlin from Inside
• The Story of India
• The Three Musketeers
• Where in the World is Osama bin Laden

The entire Abbottabad collection has been available to the U.S. Intelligence Community and to the Department of Defense for years.