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You can check out Nelly Lahoud's interview with 60 Minutes .

Bin Laden’s greatest fear was not capture or death but the revelation of al-Qaeda’s secrets. When he was killed in May 2011, U.S. Special Operations Forces took an additional eighteen minutes to collect Bin Laden's hard drives on which al-Qaeda’s most secret communications were saved. In her ground-breaking book, , ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Senior Fellow Nelly Lahoud distills the content of nearly 6,000 pages of Arabic language private communications. For the first time, al-Qaeda’s closely guarded secrets are laid bare, shattering misconceptions and revealing how and what Bin Laden communicated with his associates, his plans for future attacks, and al-Qaeda’s hostility toward countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan.

To discuss her book, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ welcomes Nelly Lahoud, author of The Bin Laden Papers and a senior fellow with ¹ú²úÊÓƵ’s International Security program. Lahoud is the author of three other books, including The Jihadis’ Path to Self Destruction. She was also lead author of Letters From Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point’s analysis of the first tranche of the documents to be released. The event will be moderated by Peter Bergen, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows, professor of practice at Arizona State University, and author of .

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Speaker:

Nelly Lahoud
Senior Fellow, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ International Security program
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Moderator:

Peter Bergen,
Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ
Professor of Practice, ASU
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