7/1/2011

“U.S. officials…have completed an exhaustive review of the trove of bin Laden files collected at his compound after the May 2 [2011] U.S. raid that killed him. …Analysts at the CIA and other agencies are likely to continue poring over the bin Laden files for years. But the multi-agency task force that was set up to review what officials have described as the largest cache of terrorism records recovered to date finished its job and was disbanded last month. ‘We believe the materials will continue to yield new insights on al-Qaeda for years to come,’ said a U.S. counterterrorism official familiar with the task force’s work. ‘But the task force is done.’ ”

 – Greg Miller, “Bin Laden Document Trove Reveals Strain on al-Qaeda,” The Washington Post, July 1, 2011