If U.S. troops hadn’t killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, he might have died eventually from paranoia. Recent papers released show that the terror leader was worried about his wife’s tooth.
“The size of the chip is about the length of a grain of wheat and the width of a fine piece of vermicelli,” he wrote under the name Abu Abdallah.
“Al Qaeda’s leaders were increasingly worried about spies in their midst, drones in the air and secret tracking devices reporting their movements, documents seized in the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout reveal.”
NBC noted that in one document, bin Laden issued instructions to al Qaeda members holding an Afghan hostage to be wary of possible tracking technology attached to the ransom payment.
“It is important to get rid of the suitcase in which the funds are delivered, due to the possibility of it having a tracking chip in it,” bin Laden states in a letter to an aide identified only as “Shaykh Mahmud.”
World media had a field day:
Osama bin Laden thought there was too much money in US politics, declassified letters show https://t.co/bhTHV7fpgz pic.twitter.com/Rq1KvE5OJe
— VICE News (@vicenews) March 1, 2016
How Osama bin Laden micromanaged Al Qaeda from hiding in the last years of his life https://t.co/zPZhTPx0EU
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 1, 2016
Millionaire Osama bin Laden screwed his family out of his fortune, according to declassified will. What a jerk! https://t.co/hS3hR48GaX
— Gawker (@Gawker) March 1, 2016
113 new items added to Bin Laden’s Bookshelf this morning:https://t.co/HWzltsSK6W pic.twitter.com/oQ4Gaupfjw
— Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) March 1, 2016
We are in an era where the line between reality and satire has vanished.
Posted by Douglas McGrath on Tuesday, March 1, 2016