Al-Qaeda may have helped to trade in its ailing leader for the $25m reward
Load Toad,
An interesting article reference Osama bin Laden in todays Sunday Times: -
To precis -
Al-Qaeda was seeking the $25m (£16m) bounty on his head and Bin Laden understood what was happening but had lost the will to live. Bin Laden had been ousted as leader “in a silent, bloodless coup” in 2003 and may have been suffering from some degenerative disease, in which he was losing his mental capacities and his physical abilities.
Al-Qaeda was broke and its motive in betraying Bin Laden was to get hold of the $25m the US had put on his head. “The supreme irony is that, if the money has been paid, then the CIA has paid to bring Al-Qaeda back to life and has [killed] somebody who was totally irrelevant to Al-Qaeda and who was dying anyway.”
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Some of the above is directly quoted from the Sunday Times (Sunday11 March 2012).