Hiding and with his terrorist organization taking a beating, Osama bin Laden continued to call on his followers to develop novel terror attacks, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed bin Laden´s diary and other recovered documents.
Among the terrorist leader´s ideas: striking smaller cities, target trains in addition to airplanes, and particularly, strive for high American death tolls in each attack. Bin Laden was involved in every major recent al-Qaeda plot.
These revelations shatter what had been the conventional wisdom on bin Laden -- that he was mainly a figurehead, and that his need to hide prevented him from being the operational leader of al-Qaeda.
