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A look at Osama bin Laden's documents

10:06 AM, May 4, 2012

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Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in this television image broadcast Sunday Oct. 7, 2001. (AP Photo/Al Jazeera)

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  • Jarret Brachman: Assistant professor of security studies at North Dakota State University and the former director of research at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center. He is the author of "Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice"

A cache of documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound show deep divisions within al-Qaeda over how to manage its emerging affiliates. We'll speak with a counter-terrorism specialist about what he sees in the documents.

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