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Osama bin Laden - al Qaeda Government Documents

11,707  pages of U.S. government documents covering the activities of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda (Arabic for the Base) network. Osama bin Laden  and al Qaeda have been involved in several acts and conspiracies against the United States, including the September 11th, 2001, attack on New York's World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon building.

Material chiefly covers information from the formation Al Qaeda up to September 2001 on Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network's  involvement in the bombings of the U.S. military's Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia, the United States' embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,  the attack on the USS Cole, and other plots.

The material is principally comprised of trial transcripts, court documents, and government reports.

Highlights of the material include:
 
Testimony of former Osama bin Laden associate Jamal Ahmed Al-Fadl. Al-Fadl broke from al Qaeda after stealing $110,000 of the group's funds. Al-Fadl testified that in 1996 he warned US officials that its embassies may come under attack from al Qaeda. Al-Fadl, who once ran al Qaeda's payroll, gave account of Osama bin Laden extensive network of companies involved in import-export, currency trading, construction, and farming. Al-Fadl also spoke of his role in the seeking of uranium.

U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) report on the USS Cole attack. The report shows the investigation of the incident found shared responsibility for the failure to anticipate and protect the USS Cole from a terrorist attack on October 12, 1999, which killed 17 sailors and injured 42 others. The 1,600-plus page report notes, among other things, that because no one on board spoke Arabic, the Cole crew "had no means of making meaningful queries" during its brief refueling stop in Yemen.

A brief CIA document outlining Osama bin Laden's activities against the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and his later dealings with al Qaeda.

A report from the Defense Department on failures by command to safeguard the Khobar Towers against attack.

Contents

Responsibility for the Terrorist Atrocities in the United States, 11 September 2001

Report from British Prime Minister's Tony Blair's government blaming Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda for the September 11th attack on the United States and providing a background on the Taliban and bin Laden.


FBI Files 1995-2001

A variety of FBI files made up of threat alerts, summary of investigation memorandum and reports of interviews conducted by the FBI of events and persons related to Bin Laden and/or Al Qaeda.

 
CIA Files

Several pages from the CIA. Includes a brief CIA document outlining Osama bin Laden's activities against the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and his later dealings with al Qaeda.

 
State Department Report  U.S. Engagement with the Taliban on Usama Bin Laden - July 2001 

According to this July 2001 report, between 1996 and the summer of 2001, the United States pressed the Taliban more than 30 times to expel Bin Laden from Afghanistan. Two days after the 1998 Cruise missile attack on Bin Laden’s camp, Mullah Omar initiated a phone call to Washington, the U.S. government’s only known direct contact with the Taliban leader, claiming that he did not believe “bin Laden had engaged in or planned any terrorist acts while on Afghan soil,” and that “getting rid” of him “would not end the problems posed to the US by the Islamic world.”


State Department Report of the Accountability Review Boards on the Embassy Bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam on August 7, 1998

The two terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam resulted in the deaths of over 220 persons and injuries to more than 4,000 people. Twelve American USG employees and family members and 40 Kenyan and Tanzanian USG employees were among those killed. "Having completed an extensive review in Washington, Nairobi, and Dar es Salaam, the Boards were most disturbed at two interconnected issues: 1) the inadequacy of resources to provide security against terrorist attacks, and 2) the relative low priority accorded security concerns throughout the US government. . . ."

 
USS Cole U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) report

The U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) report on the USS Cole attack. The report shows the investigation of the incident found shared responsibility for the failure to anticipate and protect the USS Cole from a terrorist attack on October 12, 1999, which killed 17 sailors and injured 42 others. The 1,600-plus page report notes, among other things, that because no one on board spoke Arabic, the Cole crew "had no means of making meaningful queries" during its brief refueling stop in Yemen. 

 
Osama Bin Laden: A Case Study 

A 1999, Sandia National Laboratories 400-page profile of Bin Laden. The report found that the African embassy attacks did not take the U.S. by surprise, given its existing counterterrorism intelligence capabilities.  It added that the retaliatory cruise missile strikes ordered by President Clinton, which destroyed a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant and killed several suspected terrorists training in Afghanistan,  “did little to help solve the problem posed by bin Laden and may ultimately prove to have done more harm than good.” The Sandia analysts concluded – chillingly – that the bombings showed “The ‘war’ on terrorism will never be ‘won.’”


Congressional Research Service Reports

 Reports include Terrorism: U. S. Response to Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania: A New Policy Direction?, Terrorist Attack on USS Cole: Background and Issues for Congress, Terrorism and the Military's Role in Domestic Crisis Management: Background and Issues for Congress, Terrorism: Near Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 2001 and Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy.

 
Executive Order 13129 (1999)

1999 Presidential Executive order blocking property and prohibiting trade with the Taliban, due to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

 
Report of the Accountability Review Boards on the Embassy Bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (1999)

U.S. Department of State report on the facts and circumstances surrounding the August 7,1998, bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

 
Bin Laden's Press Release September 11, 2001

Bin Laden's Press Release regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, original Arabic and English translation.

 
A report from the Defense Depart on failures by command to
safeguard the Khobar Towers against attack.


State Department Reports

United States Department of State 2001 released report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000."

United States Department of State 2001 report, "Political Violence Against Americans 1998."
 

United States of America v Usama Bin Laden et al. Court Documents

9,339 pages of court documents covering Case number S(7)/(8)(9) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), United States of America v Usama Bin Laden et al., United States District Court, S.D. New York, United States.

Other defendants include Muhammad Atef, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Saif Al Adel, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, Khalid Al Fawwaz, Wadih El Hage, Anas Al Liby, Ibrahim Eida

Members of the al-Qaeda were charged for planning and committing the bombing of the Embassies of the US in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.