Washington: Frustrated over al Qaeda’s recognition as a global terror outfit, its chief Osama bin Laden wanted to change the name of the group to identify it more closely with Islam before he was killed by US Special Forces in Pakistan, the White House has said.
He (bin Laden) even contemplated, in those writings, changing the name of al Qaeda to try to more closely identify it with Islam,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, referring to the treasure trove of information recovered from the Abbott bad hide out of the al Qaeda leader.
In the operation to recover and bring to justice bin Laden, US commandos also recovered a treasure trove of material from his residence where they were able to evaluate some of his ongoing communications and even some of his thinking about the state of al Qaeda, he said yesterday.
Earnest said there is no question that radical ideologues around the globe have sought, and in some cases succeeded, in infiltrating some elements of the Muslim world to propagate their ideology and to try to distort that religion to justify their terrible acts of violence.
The founder and head of al Qaeda, Osama was killed in Pakistan’s Bilal Town in Abbott bad on May 2, 2011 by US Navy SEALs of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group. The operation was carried out in a Central Intelligence Agency-led operation.
Bureau Report
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