{"id":196,"date":"2012-05-04T06:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T10:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2012-05-04T06:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T10:52:57","slug":"letters-from-abbottabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/letters-from-abbottabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters from Abbottabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great new CTC report, available online at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctc.usma.edu\/posts\/letters-from-abbottabad-bin-ladin-sidelined\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ctc.usma.edu\/posts\/letters-from-abbottabad-bin-ladin-sidelined<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). They consist of electronic letters or draft letters, totaling 175 pages in the original Arabic and 197 pages in the English translation. The earliest is dated September 2006 and the latest April 2011.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0These internal al-Qa`ida communications were authored by several\u00c2\u00a0 leaders, most prominently Usama bin Ladin.\u00c2\u00a0 In contrast to his public statements that focused on the injustice of those he believed to be the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enemies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Muslims, namely corrupt \u00e2\u20ac\u0153apostate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Muslim rulers and their Western \u00e2\u20ac\u0153overseers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the focus of Bin Ladin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s private letters is Muslims\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 suffering at the hands of his jihadi \u00e2\u20ac\u0153brothers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He is at pain advising them to abort domestic attacks that cause Muslim civilian casualties and focus on the United States, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153our desired goal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bin Ladin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s frustration with regional jihadi groups and his seeming inability to exercise control over their actions and public statements is the most compelling story to be told on the basis of the 17 de-classified documents. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Letters from Abbottabad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an initial exploration and contextualization of 17 documents that will be the grist for future academic debate and discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great new CTC report, available online at: http:\/\/www.ctc.usma.edu\/posts\/letters-from-abbottabad-bin-ladin-sidelined This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). They consist of electronic letters or draft letters, totaling 175 pages in the original Arabic and 197 pages in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/letters-from-abbottabad\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}