The compound in Abbottabad where the US forces killed Osama bin Laden was an active command centre from which he directed Al Qaeda, a senior intelligence official said on Saturday as he released videos showing Osama watching himself on tape and rehearsing speeches. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said information carted away from the compound by US forces following Monday’s raid represented the largest trove of intelligence ever obtained from a single terrorism suspect. “This compound in Abbottabad was an active command and control centre for Al Qaeda’s top leader and it’s clear … that he was not just a strategic thinker for the group,” the official said. “He was active in operational planning and in driving tactical decisions.” The official released five video clips of Osama taken from the compound, most of them showing the Al Qaeda leader, his beard dyed black, evidently rehearsing the videotaped speeches he occasionally distributed to his followers. One video segment, however, showed a grey-bearded Osama in a more casual setting wrapped in a blanket and apparently wearing a ski cap while watching videotapes of him. The official said the personal nature of the videos was further evidence that the man killed in the raid was Osama. The official said Osama’s body had been confirmed in several ways, including identification by a woman at the compound, facial recognition methods and matching against a DNA profile with a likelihood of error of only 1 in 11.8 quadrillion. Al Qaeda acknowledged Osama’s death on Friday as well, and the official said it was “noteworthy that the group did not announce a new leader, suggesting it is still trying to deal with Osama’s demise”. The official said US intelligence assumed Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s No 2 leader, was likely to assume control of the organisation but that he was disliked by some members.
If it was.where were hundred of billion dollars costing CIA,satellite tracking systems,Harp etc etc.It is American-Bush-Obama failure,American nation must ask and ask the resignation of American establishment in totality and Obama,the self aggrandizing in particular.Osama.was their own protege since 1970s in Soviet0-Afghan war and the current liberation war-their own imposed war to accelerate neoncons war economy etcetc.Terrorism is 100 trillion dollars business in units all forms.The neocon masters of USA need Osamas permanently to supplement this hundreds of trillion dollars business opportunity.They will one Osama and create another for their sel serving purposes and still make fool of world and American people and extort their another hundreds of trillion dollars tax money.The real 'COMMAND CENTER' is in USA,WEST,NATO' in all servility to neoncon master .
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