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Bin Laden bookshelf shows scholarship of American policy

Season 2015 Episode 1400 | 6m 34s

More than 100 papers and videos from Osama bin Laden were released by American officials today, offering new insight into what the terror leader read, wrote and envisioned for al-Qaida. Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation and Greg Miller of The Washington Post join Gwen Ifill to discuss what the documents reveal.

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