How Osama Bin Laden kept a close watch on Kashmir

The files include Laden's son's wedding video and diaries left by the Saudi-born militant.

Osama Bin Laden kept a close watch on the developments in Kashmir, the David Headley files have revealed. Scores of documents were seized from Laden's hideout in Pakistan after he was killed.

The Central Intelligence Agency released 470,000 additional files seized in May 2011 when US Navy SEALs burst into the Abbottabad compound and shot dead Laden.

The files include Laden's son's wedding video and diaries left by the Saudi-born militant.

The documents revealed that Laden closely followed news related to the arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Headley and was a regular reader of some of the top publications.

An article 'Fears of air-borne terrorists strikes in India, UK' published in Sri Lanka Guardian was also found in a separate file on Laden's computer.

A PTI story, 'Al-Qaeda helping Taliban to destabilise Pak Government: Gates', dated February 9, 2010, was also found on Laden's computer. Another article found on Laden's computer was about the coded communications between Headley and his HuJI links.

Laden also saved on his computer another PTI article, titled: 'India to send magistrate to US to record Headley's statement'. Laden highlighted in yellow some portion of the article titled 'Pak Major handled Headley's India recce', published on March 16, 2010.

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