Earlier this month, the Pentagon said it had received "credible reports" suggesting that Mohammed Atef -- one of al Qaeda's top aides to Osama bin Laden -- was killed in an airstrike south of Kabul.
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Some U.S. officials doubt that top Pakistani officials knew of bin Laden's location.
President Bush and other top American officials have said bin Laden is the prime suspect in the September 11 attacks.
On Monday, Mr Obama said he had made it his top national security priority to find Bin Laden.
According to the documents recovered in the Abbottabad compound, the spectacular set of self-inflicted mistakes by al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq played heavily on the minds of bin Laden and his top advisers.
The memo is one sent anonymously in May to the American top brass, soon after Osama bin Laden had been located and killed a stone's-throw from an elite military academy in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad.
Then, last week, in an apparent bid to dampen speculation that their security measures were over the top, government officials reportedly suggested that Mr bin Laden himself could be behind the new-found threat.
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At one point, bin 'Attash made a paper airplane and placed it on top of a microphone.
He did clarify his statements a couple days later and also in a debate, saying that getting bin Laden was important, but so was focusing on other top tier al Qaeda leaders.
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Top Iraqi intelligence officials and other trusted representatives of Saddam Hussein met repeatedly with bin Laden and his subordinates.
Dr Afridi - believed to be in his late 40s - was the top medic in the Khyber tribal region before his arrest shortly after US troops killed Bin Laden in a raid in Abbottabad on 2 May 2011.
In August 2010, CIA Director Leon Panetta went to the White House to brief the president and a handful of his top national security advisers, including Brennan, that the CIA had a promising lead that suggested bin Laden could be living in a compound in the northern city of Abbottabad.
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