The al Qaeda leader never wavered from his basic conception that only a mega-attack on an American city devastating enough to rock the US economy would make Washington withdraw its forces from the Middle East. This is confirmed in the files taken from the Abbottabad villa after he was killed on May 2. Otherwise the materials examined so far contribute no hard intelligence to the war on al Qaeda or the prevention of another mega-attack in the US. The US administration planned Osama bin Laden's death as a lever for al Qaeda's destruction. DEBKA-Net-Weekly's next issue out next Friday tabs the ten master-terrorists still at large, including one who holds the key to a dirty bomb attack, their probable hideouts and the prospects of their capture. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly,click here Egypt's military rulers are letting Hamas' political leader Khaled Meshaal move his base out of troubled Damascus to the Gaza Strip. The pledge came as an inducement for his signing the Palestinian unity pact with Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah on May 4, as disclosed for the first time by DEBKAfile's intelligence sources. In Damascus, Bashar Assad's cousin Rami Makhlouf threatened Syria would go to war against Israel if the US and Europe did not back off from supporting the anti-regime uprising. 
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Thursday, 12 May 2011
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 12, 2011, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Osama bin Laden looked back at his last video
The 10 high-profile al Qaeda terrorists still in US sights
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Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, al Qaeda's dirty bomb ace
Cairo to move Meshaal's Hamas base to Gaza. Assad threatens Israel with war
May 11, 2011, 12:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Assad's mouthpiece tycoon Rami Makhlouf
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