article_snippet: al Qaeda officials also entered into ceasefire discussions through intermediaries with elements of Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, although (CNN)Newly released al Qaeda documents, including letters to and from Osama bin Laden in the year or so before his May 2011 death suggest that nothing came of these discussions and there is no evidence in the documents indicating that the Pakistani government had any clue about Osama bin Laden location or presence in Pakistan.
article_snippet: CIA efforts to spy on the group and kill the group leaders were so effective that in June 2010 an al Qaeda's official urged Osama bin Laden, "You should have fewer exchanges of correspondence with us during this period.
article_snippet: Within a few weeks of this letter being written, CIA CIA would track Osama bin Laden trusted courier to Osama bin Laden longtime hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and on May 1, 2011, a U.S. Navy SEAL operation ordered by President Barack Obama killed al Qaeda's leader.
article_snippet: al Qaeda's had also sent "three brothers" on a terrorist mission to Denmark, a country that Osama bin Laden loathed because of the publication by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, but had "lost contact with Denmark, a country that bin Laden loathed because of the publication by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
article_snippet: Given all the problems Denmark, a country that bin Laden loathed because of the publication by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was having, an al Qaeda's strategist suggested refocusing efforts on carrying out terrorist attacks using the "simplest things such as  household knives, gas tanks, fuel, diesel and others like airplanes, trains and cars as  killing tools.
article_snippet: : U.S. offers details about Osama bin Laden raid .
article_snippet: Underlining al Qaeda's weakness, during the summer of 2010 al Qaeda's was contemplating some kind of ceasefire with the Pakistani government and had entered into negotiations with al Qaeda's via intermediaries to explain that al Qaeda's battle was "primarily against the Americans.
article_snippet: Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012 show that such a ceasefire was purely tactical rather than the beginning of some kind of rapprochement between al Qaeda's and the Pakistanis.
article_snippet: At one point an al Qaeda's official referred to "bin Laden call to jihad against the Pakistani government.
article_snippet: According to Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012, Pakistani intelligence officials "reached out toal Qaeda's al Qaeda's through longtime jihadist sympathizers who had formerly held positions in the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, as well as the leaders of militant groups such as the Haqqani Taliban faction that have contacts with ISI.
article_snippet: Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012 suggest that nothing came of these discussions, and there is no evidence in these discussions that the Pakistanis had any idea that bin Laden was in Pakistan or indeed was even alive.
article_snippet: bin Laden life on the run .
article_snippet: Moreover during the course of reporting the book "Manhunt," about the CIA's long search for bin Laden, I spoke to several senior U.S. officials who said that the U.S. intelligence community was covertly monitoring the communications of Pakistani army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and ISI director Ahmed Shuja Pasha the night of the bin Laden raid and the bin Laden raid were the bin Laden raid surprised about bin Laden being in Abbottabad.
article_snippet: In 2008, al Qaeda had captured Afghanistan's former ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Khaliq Farahi.
article_snippet: How U.S. forces killed bin Laden .
article_snippet: In a 10-page letter that bin Laden wrote in August 2010, bin Laden had reams of advice for al Qaeda's, ordering that al Qaeda's not attack Sufi Muslims in Somalia and also suggesting a plan to assassinate the President of neighboring Uganda who had sent bin Laden troops to fight Al-Shabaab.
article_snippet: bin Laden had lived in nearby Sudan in the mid-'90s, establishing a number of business and farming enterprises.
article_snippet: bin Laden, something of a micromanager, told bin Laden top lieutenant to "send us the resumes of all the brothers who may be nominated now or in the future for important management positions.
article_snippet: And al Qaeda suggested that al Qaeda lieutenants reach out to Ahmed Zaidan, an Al Jazeera reporter based in Pakistan who had interviewed bin Laden in the past, so that al Qaeda could have plenty of time to prepare a report to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
article_snippet: bin Laden said bin Laden didn't want Zaidan to interview any members of bin Laden family, but bin Laden told bin Laden team to get in touch with the reporter "promptly" to get a sense of the questions bin Laden wanted bin Laden to answer.
article_snippet: bin Laden was killed four months before the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
article_snippet: As Highlights of bin Laden documents released in 2012 make clear bin Laden died knowing that bin Laden dream of another terrorism spectacular in the West was just that: a dream.
article_snippet: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said bin Laden had lived in Somalia.