Bin Laden Home Tapes Expected to be Released

 "WASHINGTON (KABC) -- The world will get its first glimpse into how Osama bin Laden lived inside the secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Home videos and propaganda tapes found inside the hideout are expected to be released Saturday, U.S. officials said. This new material apparently includes candid footage of the slain al Qaeda leader strolling around the compound.

These tapes are among the wealth of information seized during the raid that killed bin Laden and four others. This collection of data suggests bin Laden played a strong role in planning attacks by al Qaeda and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior security officials said.

Officials say they have already learned a great deal from bin Laden's cache of computers and data, but they would not confirm reports that it yielded clues to the whereabouts of al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri."


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Is it appropriate for these tapes to be released to the public?  I think the more important findings of these should be used to help analyze the lives of the organizations to help perhaps get some insight in their daily affairs and help us prevent future attacks/capture other members of the terrorist organizations.  Some say that this will help put bin Laden in a more negative light to his supporters as a man very concerned with his own self-image, as the videos are said to show lots of propaganda and him watching himself on television.  I think that this could be a bigger deal than it is being made out to be- we will see the implications of it soon enough.