splinter groups in iraq. they weren t even able to do it with splinter groups in afghanistan. and so it shows that while they were a worldwide organization that command and control structure that they wanted to have was something that was frequently lacking. why do you think this came out now, jack? well i think part of the reason it came out now is because the intelligence community wants to put it out. the white house wants to put it out. they want to show what it is they were doing. it also is trying to minimize to make al qaeda more incompetent or as incompetent in some ways as they really were. and in some ways it s not just the credible but the laughable, the strange, the paranoid. and that s coming out too, part of the psychological operation, which continues to this day. talking about paranoid and bizarre, matthew, bin laden s digital library is filled with conspiracy books, bloodlines of the illuminati secrets of the