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| The Abbottabad Archive and the Silence of the Chattering Classes |
| 2018-11-28 |
| [Ricochet] Earlier this week, Mary Habeck — a military historian whom I first met some twenty-three years ago when she was an assistant professor and I, a visiting professor at Yale — came to Hillsdale to give a talk for our local Alexander Hamilton Society. Over lunch, she told me something that I did not know — which set my mind a-wandering. Just over a year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency posted online nearly all of the materials collected from Osama Bin Laden’s lair by the Navy Seals who effected his demise. This is no small trove. There are tens of thousands of pages of material, and items in the collection spell out in detail Al Q’aeda’s dealings with the governments of Pakistan and Iran — among others. |
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| Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 2018-11-28 13:50 |
| #2 I raised the same questions about the trove of material found in Bosnia and that attended the trial in Chicago of Enaam Arnout. The trial occurred about two decades ago, and Arnout was a close associate of OBLaden and was present at the founding of Al Qaida in August 1988. I thought sure that some academic would find the trove fascinating and produce a book on the early AQ. No such luck. |
| Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2018-11-28 08:45 |
| #1 The chattering classes can't read Arabic & aren't interested in finding anyone to read this stuff to them. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-11-28 03:51 |