• An AFP journalist looks at a page displayed on the website of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The CIA declassified an al-Qaida recruitment form and around 100 other documents from bin Laden's archive, allowing an insight into his thinking in his final years. The documents were among intelligence materials seized by U.S. commandos on May 2, 2011 after they stormed bin Laden's hideout in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad and shot him dead. | AFP-JIJI
    An AFP journalist looks at a page displayed on the website of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The CIA declassified an al-Qaida recruitment form and around 100 other documents from bin Laden's archive, allowing an insight into his thinking in his final years. The documents were among intelligence materials seized by U.S. commandos on May 2, 2011 after they stormed bin Laden's hideout in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad and shot him dead. | AFP-JIJI

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. released a trove of documents seized when special forces stormed Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan in 2011 that include references to unfulfilled plots such as an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

Among the documents captured at the hideout in Abbottabad, where the terrorist behind the Sept. 11 attacks was killed, are appraisals of extremist efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan, an eclectic list of books owned by the al-Qaida leader and an application form to join his group.

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