article_snippet: The new al Qaeda's documents are part of a trove of many thousands that the SEALs recovered at Osama bin Laden compound.
article_snippet: Several were released during the Brooklyn trial last month of al Qaeda's operative Abid Naseer.
article_snippet: Seventeen of The new al Qaeda documents had also been released around the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden death.
article_snippet: It's long past time for the government to release more of these thousands of captured documents -- with any necessary redactions for national security purposes -- as they help us to understand better what precipitated the decline and fall of the terrorist group that once dominated the attention of the world, just as ISIS does today.
article_snippet: Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012 .
article_snippet: Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012 did show one area of real success for al Qaeda, which was kidnapping for ransom, a tactic ISIS has been using so effectively.
article_snippet: Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012 show that al Qaeda's leaders were in contact with Tayeb Agha, a close aide to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
article_snippet: Far from the image of the isolated man in the cave that was prevalent before bin Laden was killed, Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012 portray bin Laden as a hands-on manager of al Qaeda.
article_snippet: bin Laden also ordered that some of the tens of thousands of documents leaked by U.S. Army Pvt.