According to an Associated Press article on May 6, 2011, “analysts who examined this information [seized from the raid which killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011] came to believe that bin Laden ‘was a lot more involved in directing al Qaeda personnel and operations than sometimes thought over the last decade’ and that he had been providing strategic guidance to al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Somalia.”
– Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 2