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Osama bin Laden - the isolated man or the Al-Qaeda super charisma?

CIA has recently released a secret video of Osama bin Laden portraiting his years before death. However, some are skeptical about the video clips - because they were carefully selected, which means not revealing the FACTS and TRUTHS about Osama's life. See the controversies here -

Rare view of unkempt bin Laden, for what?

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In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011 by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches television, showing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama. U.S. intelligence would not confirm Saturday that the video of bin Laden in the makeshift office was filmed at the Pakistani compound, but they have said they believe he has been holed up in the compound for as long as six years. This and other videos released Saturday show him watching television and rehearsing for terrorist videos. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)

From a shabby, makeshift office, he ran a global terrorist empire. The world's most wanted man watched newscasts of himself from a tiny television perched atop a rickety old desk cluttered with wires.

On Saturday, the U.S. released a handful of videos, selected to show bin Laden in a much more candid, unflattering light. In the short clips, bin Laden appears hunched and tired, seated on the floor, watching television wrapped in a wool blanket and wearing a knit cap.

Outtakes of his propaganda tapes show that they were heavily scripted affairs. He dyed and trimmed his beard for the cameras, then shot and reshot his remarks until the timing and lighting were just right.

But by selecting unflattering clips of bin Laden, the U.S. is also working to shatter the image he worked so hard to craft.

"It showed that bin Laden was not the superhero he wanted his people to think," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

It's unclear how many tapes were pulled out of the house, and U.S. officials say they're scouring the intelligence so quickly it has not even been catalogued and counted yet. But there may be a trove of recordings. According to the book "Growing Up bin Laden," by his first wife and fourth son, the terrorist leader nearly always kept a tape recorder nearby to take down his thoughts, plans and musings about politics and the world.

Among the material handed out was an al-Qaida propaganda video, apparently intended for public release, entitled "Message to the American People," likely filmed sometime last fall, the official said. Bin Laden has not released a video since 2007, and officials were not sure why this one had not been released.

Active Terrorist Commander?

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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency says the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed by American commandos on Monday was an active command and control center for al-Qaida, and that bin Laden was not just a strategic or inspirational leader for the terrorist group. A senior intelligence official made the comments at a briefing at the Pentagon Saturday, during which he also released five video clips of bin Laden that were captured during the raid.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says the material gathered by the assault team amounts to the largest trove of information ever captured from a senior terrorist leader.  He says there is so much material that officials are still cataloguing it.

The official says the material is already providing what he called “some golden nuggets” of information and “important insights” into al-Qaida’s operations.  He would not provide specifics, but he said the information indicates that bin Laden was involved in generating ideas for terrorist attacks on the United States and around the world, provided tactical and operational guidance, and directed daily operations. He says bin Laden was not only a figurehead or strategist, as some people had thought.

For 5 years, Osama lived behind barbed wire, high walls

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Pakistani soldiers stand guard near al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad's Bilal Town on Sunday.

What has emerged so far is a portrait of an isolated man

The world's most-wanted terrorist lived his last five years imprisoned behind the barbed wire and high walls of his home in Abbottabad, his days consumed by darkness and domesticity.

United States officials believe that Osama bin Laden spent many hours on the computer, relying on couriers to bring him thumb drives packed with information from the outside world. He lived mostly in two indoor rooms except for daily pacing in his courtyard, near a lush inner garden framed by poplar trees. His once-large entourage of Arab bodyguards was down to one trusted Pakistani courier and the courier's brother, who also had the job of buying goats, sheep and Coca-Cola for the household.

While his world had shrunk, he was still revered at home by his three wives, by his children and by the tight, interconnected circle of loyalists in the compound. He did not do chores or tend to the cows and water buffalo on the south side of the compound like the other men.

The household, U.S. officials figure, knew how important it was for him to devote his time to al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation he founded and was still actively running at the time of his death. (NYTimes/AP/VOA/Guardian/Daily Telegraph)

What exactly is Osama's role in Al Qaeda activities before his death? Had Osama bin Laden already lost his charisma in Al Qaeda, or was he still the No.1 most influential leader to Al Qaeda? With selected video released, what is the CIA and US real intention?

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