Following the death of Osama bin Laden, “On May 6 [2011], a U.S. government official told CNN that bin Laden ‘worked at the operational and even tactical levels. …He was clearly issuing directions at all levels.’ From his strategically placed compound, with couriers and assistants to help, he was also apparently overseeing the details of a planned attack on U.S. public rail transportation to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11.”
– Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 247