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Box 15

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Osama bin Laden, letters regarding Saudi Arabia, Advice & Reform Committee

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Documents related Bergen’s research into Bin Laden's early history up to 2001, in file folders. Comprised primarily of reporting and research into OBL and AQ, and interviews with Saudi and Egyptian interviewees and individuals who knew bin Laden. Translations of statements and interviews by Osama bin Laden, documentary transcripts; letters, interviews, and statements of Osama bin Laden and the Advice & Reform Committee, the London office of al-Qaeda.

Dates: 1988 - 2001

Osama bin Laden, interviews and statements, pre-9/11

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 2-3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Documents related Bergen’s research into Bin Laden's early history up to 2001, in file folders. Comprised primarily of reporting and research into OBL and AQ, and interviews with Saudi and Egyptian interviewees and individuals who knew bin Laden. Translations of statements and interviews by Osama bin Laden, documentary transcripts; letters, interviews, and statements of Osama bin Laden and the Advice & Reform Committee, the London office of al-Qaeda.

Dates: 1988 - 2001

Osama bin Laden, statements and videos, post-9/11, 2001 - 2011

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 4-6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Files related to OBL after the 9/11 attacks, including fatwas, statements, and videos from OBL distributed after 9/11 and continuing interviews with those who had known him. The bulk of this sub-series, however, is taken up with the efforts to locate OBL and to capture or kill him. The resulting raid on OBL's compound in Abbottabad features prominently, and includes: the Pakistan Commission on Osama bin Laden raid (translated, with notes by Bergen); miscellaneous interviews with Abbottabad...
Dates: 2001 - 2011