article_snippet: (CNN)Newly released al Qaeda's documents, including letters to and from Osama bin Laden in the year or so before Osama bin Laden May 2011 death, show an organization that understood his May 2011 death had severe problems resulting from Drone program.
article_snippet: The new al Qaeda documents show how al Qaeda's 9/11 operation unleashed so much force against al Qaeda's 9/11 operation, including the CIA drone program, that al Qaeda's 9/11 operation had to hide in the shadows and couldn't pull off any successful operation in the West for many years before bin Laden's death.
article_snippet: The new al Qaeda documents demonstrate that almost a decade after 9/11 al Qaeda's was struggling to get any kind of operation going against Western targets.
article_snippet: A major theme of the documents is how much punishment the CIA drone program was inflicting on al Qaeda's.
article_snippet: al Qaeda's had tried to use jamming technology and to hack into the drones "but no result so far," according to The al Qaeda official.
article_snippet: And the organization that bin Laden had founded was in deep trouble because of the CIA drone program.
highlights_snippet: New documents show al Qaeda's desperate straits in Osama bin Laden's final years .
  
highlights_snippet: Drone program took severe toll; terror group unable to mount major operation .