According to a New York Times article on May 31, 2001, ” ‘To listen to some of the news reports a year or two ago,’ said [former CIA officer/deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism, Larry C.] Johnson, ‘you would think bin Laden was running a top Fortune 500 multinational company–people everywhere, links everywhere. What the evidence at trial has correctly portrayed is that it’s really a loose amalgam of people with a shared ideology, but a very limited direction. [Reporter Benjamin] Weiser reported that ‘while Mr. Bin Laden may be a global menace, his group, Al Qaeda, was at times slipshod [and] torn by inner strife.’ ”
– Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 211