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| Osama Bin Laden Wanted to Rebrand |
| Osama Bin Laden Wanted to Rebrand Al Qaeda, Says White House
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 19-February-2015
6:32:4 AM |
| 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 Abbottabad hide out of the Al Qaeda leader.
RelatedUS Denies Israel in the Dark Over Nuclear TalksHead of Russian Security Forces Joins White House TalksBarack Obama Names New US Secret Service Head After Scandals"He felt like that would be helpful to their flagging recruiting efforts. That is an indication that our efforts to be crystal-clear about what it is that we're fighting and what we're not has not just been successful, but actually frustrated the efforts of our enemies," Earnest said.
In the operation to recover and bring to justice 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 on Thursday.
"And in those writings there is clear evidence that he (Laden) was frustrated that Al Qaeda was being recognised and acknowledged and fought not as a religious organisation but as a terrorist group," he said.
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
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