Getting Inside Bin Laden’s Head

Nelly Lahoud tells us how she pored through his captured papers with some surprising results

For years U.S. intelligence portrayed Osama bin Laden as the driving force behind post-9/11 terrorist attacks and the guiding hand behind the cancer-like spread of jihadi cells in a globe-circling belt across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe.  In truth, Al Qaeda’s leader was mostly isolated and virtually incommunicado in his now infamous compoun…