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Bin Ladin's Bookshelf 1 On May 20, 2015, the ODNI released a sizeable tranche of documents recovered during the raid on the compound used to hide Usama bin Ladin. The release, which followed a rigorous interagency review, aligns with the President’s call for increased transparency–consistent with national security prerogatives–and the 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act, which required the ODNI to conduct a review of the documents for release. The release contains two sections. The first is a list of non-classified, English-language material found in and around the compound. The second is a selection of now- declassified documents. The Intelligence Community will be reviewing hundreds more documents in the near future for possible declassification and release. An interagency taskforce under the auspices of the White House and with the agreement of the DNI is reviewing all documents which supported disseminated intelligence cables, as well as other relevant material found around the compound. All documents whose publication will not hurt ongoing operations against al-Qa‘ida or their affiliates will be released. This list contains U.S. person information that is being released in accordance with the Fiscal Year 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act (section 309) requirement that the Director of National Intelligence conduct a declassification review of certain items collected during the mission that killed Usama bin Ladin on May 1, 2011, and make publicly available any information declassified as a result of such review. All publications are unclassified and available commercially or in the public domain. The U.S. Intelligence Community does not endorse any of the publications on this list. Bin Ladin’s Bookshelf was published on May 20, 2015, by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 2 CONTENTS . Now Declassified Material . Publicly Available U.S. Government Documents . English Language Books . Material Published by Violent Extremists & Terror Groups . Materials Regarding France . Media Articles . Other Religious Documents . Think Tank & Other Studies . Software & Technical Manuals . Miscellaneous Documents . Documents Probably Used by Other Compound Residents Bin Ladin’s Bookshelf was published on May 20, 2015, by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 3 Now Declassified Material [Back to Top] . 06 Ramadan . A Letter to the Sunnah people in Syria . Afghani Opportunity . CALL FOR GUIDANCE AND REFORM 13 April 1994 . Despotism of Big Money . German Economy . Gist of conversation Oct 11 . Ideas as discussion with the sons of the Peninsula . Instructions to Applicants . Jihad and Reform Front 22 May 2007 . Lessons learned following the fall of the Islamic Emirate . Letter about revolutions . Letter Addressed to Atiyah . Letter addressed to Shaykh . Letter Ansar Al-Sunnah Group . Letter dtd 07 August 2010 . Letter dtd 09 August 2010 . Letter dtd 13 Oct 2010 . Letter dtd 16 December 2007 . Letter dtd 18 JUL 2010 . Letter dtd 21 May 2007 . Letter dtd 30 October 2010 . Letter dtd 5 April 2011 . Letter dtd March 2008 . Letter dtd November 24 2010 . Letter from Abu Abdallah to his mother 2 . Letter from Abu Abdullah to his mother . Letter from Al-Zawahiri dtd August 2003 . Letter from Hafiz . Letter from Hamzah to father dtd July 2009 . Letter from Khalid to 'Abd-al-Latif . Letter from Khalid to Abdullah and Abu al-Harish . Letter from Khalid to his son . Letter from Qari, early April . Letter from UBL to Atiyah . Letter from Zamray dtd 07 August 2010 . Letter Implications of Climate Change . Letter re Fatwas of the Permanent Committee . Letter regarding Abu al-Hasan . Letter to ‘Abd Al-Latif dtd 29 December 2009 . Letter to Abdallah . Letter to 'Abd-al-Rahman . Letter to Abu 'Abdallah al-Hajj . Letter to Abu Sulayman Bin Ladin’s Bookshelf was published on May 20, 2015, by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 4 . Letter to Aunt . Letter to Aunt Umm-Khalid . Letter to Badr Khan 3 Dec 2002 . Letter to Brother Fatimah . Letter to Brother from Abu Abdallah . Letter to brother Hamzah . Letter to Brother Ilyas al- . Letter to brother Yahya . Letter to daughter Umm-Mu'adh . Letter to Hakimullah Mahsud, Leader of the Taliban Movement . Letter to Hamza . Letter to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan . Letter to Muhammad Aslam dtd 22 April 2011 . Letter to Mujahidin in Somalia dtd 28 December 2006 . Letter to my beloved Brother . Letter to Shaykh Abu Abdallah dtd 17 July 2010 . Letter to Shaykh Abu Abdallah dtd 2 September 2009 . Letter to Shaykh Abu Yahya . Letter to Shaykh Abu Yahya 2 . Letter to Shaykh Abu-al-Layth, Shaykh Abu-Yahya, Shaykh 'Abdallah Sa'id . Letter to Shaykh Azmaray dtd 4 February 2008 . Letter to Shaykh from Abu Abdallah . Letter to Shaykh Mahmud . Letter to Shaykh Mahmud 26 September 2010 . Letter to Shaykh Mahmud and Shaykh Abu Yahya . Letter to sister Um-'Abd-al-Rahman . Letter to sons 'Uthman, Muhammad, Hamzah, wife Um Hamzah . Letter to Special Committee of al-Jihad's Qa'ida of the Mujahidin Affairs in Iraq and to the Ansar al-Sunnah Army . Letter to the American people . Letter to UBL from daughter Khadijah . Letter to Um ‘Abd-al-Rahman dtd 26 April 2011 . Letter to Um Abid al-Rahman . Letter to Um Sa'ad from aunt Um Khalid . Letter to Umm Khalid from Sarah . Letter to Uthman . Letter to wife . Message for all Muslims following US State of Union Address . Message for general Islamic nation . Message for Islamic Ummah in general . Message from Abu Hammam al-Ghurayb . Message to Muslim brothers in Iraq and to the Islamic nation . Report on External Operations . Request for Documents from CTC . Spreadsheet . Study Paper about the Kampala Raid in Uganda Bin Ladin’s Bookshelf was published on May 20, 2015, by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 5 . Suggestion to end the Yemen Revolution . Summary on situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan . Terror Franchise . Undated letter . Undated letter 2 . Undated Letter 3 . Undated letter from Khalid Habib . Undated letter re Afghanistan . Undated message re Egypt demonstrations . Undated statement . Undated statement 2 . Undated statement re American conversions to Islam . Verbally released document for the Naseer trial . Zamrai (UBL) letter to Unis Publicly Available U.S. Government Documents [Back to Top] . The 9/11 Commission Report: The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (2004) . Affidavit of U.S. Citizenship (Form) . “African Command: The Newest Combatant Command,” Paul Cale and the U.S. Army War College Graduating Class of 2005, U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute (2005) . “Al-Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat,” Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (June 2006) . Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Conduct of Joint Operations . Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Vision 2020 Report . Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction on Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects (1 June 2001) . “Conserving the Force, Adapting Guard Mobilization Policies for Homeland Defense to Enhance Retention,” by Major George F. Minde, Indiana Army National Guard, School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, “Al-Qaeda after the Iraq Conflict” (2003) . Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, “Al-Qaeda Profile and Threat Assessment (2005) . Congressional Research Service, “Al-Qaeda: Statements and Evolving Ideology” (2007) . Congressional Research Service, “The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations since 9/11” . Congressional Research Service, “Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom U.S. Casualty Statistics” 6 Dec 2006 . Speech by CIA Director Michael Hayden (17 September 2008) . Guide to Popular U.S. Government Documents 2000-2002 . House Armed Services Committee Hearing on Combating Terrorism (opening statement only) . International Atomic Energy Agency, “Implementation of NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic” . International Atomic Energy Agency, “Implementation of NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran” Bin Ladin’s Bookshelf was published on May 20, 2015, by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 6 . Iraq Study Group Executive Summary . Iraq Study Group Fact Sheet . Iraq Study Group Report . IRC Alert Jan 2005 . IRC Alert Feb-March 2005 . IRC Alert Apr-May 2005 . IRC Alert Jun-Jul 2005 . IRC Alert Aug-Sept 2005 . IRC Alert Oct-Nov 2005 . IRC Alert Jan-Feb 2006 . IRC Alert March-Apr 2006 . IRC Alert May-Jun 2006 . IRC Alert Jul-Aug 2006 . “List of Detainees Who Went Through Complete CSRT Process” . “List of Taliban Members” . National Security Council, National Strategy for Victory in Iraq (2005) . “Reassessing the Evolving Al-Qaeda Threat to the Homeland,” Hearing before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment of the Committee on Homeland Security, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, Nov. 19, 2009, Serial No. 111-45 . Strategic Studies Institute, “Iraqi Security Forces and Lessons from Korea” by Dr. Sheila Miyoshi Jager . “A Turkish al-Qaeda: The Islamic Jihad Union and the Internationalization of Uzbek Jihadism,” by Guido Steinberg, Strategic Insights, Naval Postgraduate School, vol. 7 issue 3 (July 2008) . U.N. Pakistan Daily News Highlights . U.N. Security Council Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia . U.S. Army War College Guide to Strategy . U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated terms . U.S. Department of Defense Selected Manpower Statistics 2003 . U.S. Department of Justice Complaint against Abdur Rehman Hashim-Syed . U.S. Department of Justice Complaint against David Headley . U.S. Department of Justice Complaint against Tahwwur Hussain Rana . U.S. Department of Justice Indictment against Ahmed Omar Abu Ali . U.S. Department of Justice Indictment against Jihad Jane . U.S. Department of Justice Indictment of David Coleman Headley . U.S. Department of Justice Motion to Detain Tahwwur Hussain Rana . U.S. House Bill to Establish the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) .
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