The US gathered an intelligence cache the size of a “small college library” during the attack on Osama bin Laden’s compound last week, offering evidence that the terrorist leader had an operational as well as symbolic role for al-Qaeda, according to a senior US official.
“The amount of intelligence that we got as a result of the raid, in addition to taking out bin Laden, is really extraordinary,” said Tom Donilon, White House national security adviser, in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
“It turns out that this is the largest cache of information . . . gotten from any terrorist in one operation. It is about the size of a small college library.”