Friday 24 June 2011

Osama bin Laden wanted to rebrand al-Qaeda

Osama bin Laden was thinking of renaming al-Qaeda, a letter discovered by US troops reveals.
It was found in the house in Pakistan where he was killed and shows he thought his terror network’s name should have a more religious meaning.
He wanted to convince Muslims worldwide they were in a holy war with America and was worried the full name al-Qaeda al-Jihad, meaning The Base of Holy War, had become shortened.
Losing the word jihad let the West “claim deceptively they are not at war with Islam,” he wrote. He suggested Taifat al-Tawhed Wal-Jihad (Monotheism and Jihad Group) or Jama’at l’Adat al-Khilafat al-Rashida (Restoration of the Caliphate Group).
3Pakistan has agreed to release the youngest of Bin Laden’s three widows, Amal Abdulfattah, and allow her to return to her native Yemen.
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