Torturing Bin Laden

Bin Laden?s biggest concern was al-Qaeda?s media image among Muslims. He worried that it was so tarnished that, in a draft letter ? he argued that the organization should find a new name. The al-Qaeda brand had become a problem, bin Laden explained, because Obama administration officials ?have largely stopped using the phrase ?the war on terror? in the context of not wanting to provoke Muslims,? and instead promoted a war against al-Qaeda. The organization?s full name was ?Qaeda al-Jihad,? bin Laden noted, but in its shorthand version, ?this name reduces the feeling of Muslims that we belong to them.? ? Bin Laden ruminated about ?mistakes? and ?miscalculations? by affiliates in Iraq and elsewhere that had killed Muslims, even in mosques. He told Atiyah to warn every emir, or regional leader, to avoid these ?unnecessary civilian casualties,? which were hurting the organization. ?Making these mistakes is a great issue,? he stressed, arguing that spilling ?Muslim blood? had resulted in ?the alienation of most of the nation [of Islam] from the [Mujaheddin].?

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