Bin Laden’s “treasure trove” reveals delusional leader

The U.S. Navy commandos recovered a "treasure trove" of more than 6,000 documents after raiding Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a year ago. The trove included correspondence between the terror leader and affiliates, and his own hand-written diary.

The documents paint a portrait of Bin Laden as a person who is an inveterate micromanager but also someone almost delusional in his belief that his organization could still force a change in American foreign policies in the Muslim world.

According to the documents, Bin Laden advised his followers not to move around the tribal regions except on overcast days when America's satellites and drones would not have as good visibility of the area. Bin Laden urged his followers to leave the remote province of Kunar where he had hid after escaping from U.S. forces in December 2001.

However, when it came to his own family bin Laden was privately advocating something quite different. He advised that his son Hamza should leave the drone-infested Pakistani tribal regions to further his religious training in the Persian Gulf kingdom of Qatar.Bin Laden added that if two of his other sons, Othman and Mohamed, should ever leave Iran, where they were living in exile, he would also advise them to steer clear of Pakistan's tribal areas.