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Bin Laden Continued Running Al-Qaeda
(AP) Kimberly Dozier - Counter-terrorist officials underestimated how key Osama bin Laden remained to running al-Qaeda, as captured documents shattered the conventional thinking that he had been reduced through isolation to being an inspirational figurehead, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Hit Los Angeles, not just New York, bin Laden wrote. Target trains as well as planes. If possible, strike on significant dates, such as the Fourth of July and the upcoming 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Above all, he urged, kill more Americans in a single attack, to drive them from the Arab world. Documents show he helped plan every recent major al-Qaeda threat the U.S. is aware of, including plots in Europe last year.