I watched parts of CNN’s documentary last night. While it did provide more depth than the “they want to kill us because of our freedom” mantra we typically hear, it still seemed superficial. Here we have reporters who have supposedly been monitoring the guy for nearly 10 years, and they don’t offer much more than general observations on how he gave up wealth to wonder in the mountains in pursuit of his spiritually-motivated war. That’s really insightful.
It’s interesting that in a program supposedly intended to help us get to know the enemy, CNN only plays a handful of very brief clips from bin Laden interviews. I guess they had to run it through the politically-correct sanitizer before releasing it for public consumption. Or are we still worried about encoded messages buried in eight-year old interviews?