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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Wed May 20, 2015, 01:42 PM May 2015

Bin Laden's Bookshelf

From Chomsky to Woodward. A rare public accounting of some of the documents seized from Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound. Oh, and LOTS of conspiracy theory books on 9/11 and the Illuminati.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is releasing this week the list of English language texts that were recovered from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound after the U.S. raid that killed the al Qaeda leader in 2011.

The list is the first public accounting by the government of the English language section of the trove of materials found in the compound. The release of the list along with another tranche of materials from the compound that are being declassified marks the fourth time since the 2011 raid that killed the 9/11 mastermind that the government has made public some of the documents found after the raid. The list, embargoed until Wednesday morning and provided in advance to BuzzFeed News, includes volumes by MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, former intelligence official and antiwar activist Michael Scheuer, conspiracy texts about 9/11 and the Illuminati, and a book by Bob Woodward. Bin Laden had these materials in digital files. The list also includes numerous materials about France, including information on France's economy and defense, as well as materials that analysts think were probably used by other residents of the compound — including a suicide prevention manual.

Link: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/us-releases-contents-of-bin-ladens-english-language-bookshel#.oygoREWJm

link has entire book list from SCRIBD

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Bin Laden's Bookshelf (Original Post) JaneyVee May 2015 OP
I bet he didn't have any books written by women cyberswede May 2015 #1
Whose library is this really? Capt. Obvious May 2015 #2
The suicide prevention manual is laughably absurd... pinboy3niner May 2015 #3
Well, maybe the book would show you what to NOT do. ret5hd May 2015 #4
Maybe it inspired them to set up a Suicide Encouragement Hotline pinboy3niner May 2015 #7
You pinged on that too, huh? Nuclear Unicorn May 2015 #6
The best book on his shelf Capt. Obvious May 2015 #8
wait, I read on DU this didn't happen...The Illuminati is staging books on the Illuminati? snooper2 May 2015 #5
Umberto Eco explains it all hifiguy May 2015 #9

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
2. Whose library is this really?
Wed May 20, 2015, 01:48 PM
May 2015

This is just part of a elaborate ruse to add to the cover story of Seal Team 6.

- Seymour

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
3. The suicide prevention manual is laughably absurd...
Wed May 20, 2015, 01:50 PM
May 2015

...in an organization that trains and uses suicide bombers.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
5. wait, I read on DU this didn't happen...The Illuminati is staging books on the Illuminati?
Wed May 20, 2015, 01:53 PM
May 2015

So people who talk about the Illuminati look crazy to others?


Those bastards are so fucking sneaky........

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