This undated image grab shows Osama bin Laden speaking at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan from a video said to have been prepared by bin Laden himself. The CIA declassified an Al-Qaeda recruitment form and around 100 other documents from Bin Laden's archive on May 20, 2015, allowing an insight into his thinking in his final years. The documents were among intelligence materials seized by US commandos on May 2, 2011 after they stormed Bin Laden's hideout in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad and shot him dead. AFP PHOTO
This undated image grab shows Osama bin Laden speaking at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan from a video said to have been prepared by bin Laden himself. The CIA declassified an Al-Qaeda recruitment form and around 100 other documents from Bin Laden's archive on May 20, 2015, allowing an insight into his thinking in his final years. The documents were among intelligence materials seized by US commandos on May 2, 2011 after they stormed Bin Laden's hideout in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad and shot him dead. AFP PHOTO

WASHINGTON: The 22-year-old would-be-jihadist wrote to his reclusive father to say he was itching to join the fight. Hamza trained with explosives and embraced the terror network that killed 3,000 Americans in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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