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The Bin Laden papers, and the inside story of al-Qaida's fall

One decade and 6,000 pages of documents later, the Bin Laden papers have upended our understanding of al-Qaida.
Los Angeles-area newspapers headline the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. (Nick Ut/AP)

When Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, their orders were to take his body and get out.

But then their

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