Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Laden comments on 9/11 anniversary, Faisal Shahzad

The following is an excerpt from the guide that summarizes 17 de-classified and translated documents that were seized in the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's house in Pakistan. They were posted online May 3, 2012, by the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center:

This document is a letter dated 21 October 2010 from Bin Ladin to “Shaykh Mahmud” (`Atiyya). The letter is primarily focused on issues in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region.

In the letter Bin Ladin specifically comments on: the security situation in Waziristan and the need to relocate al-Qa`ida members from the region; counter surveillance issues associated with the movement of his son Hamza within Pakistan; the appointment of `Atiyya’s three deputies; various al-Sahab videos and the media plan for the tenth anniversary of 9/11; the release of an Afghan prisoner held by al-Qa`ida; and the trial of Faisal Shahzad. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu Yahya al-Libi, Saif al-`Adl, and Adam Gadahn are also mentioned in the document.