Bin Laden raid: US releases more documents

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The documents are now available on a US government website

US officials have released documents that they say were found at Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan during a raid in 2011.

Special operators killed the al-Qaeda chief during that operation and recovered the documents that officials have branded Bin Laden's Bookshelf.

As well as Arabic correspondence, there are English language books by Bob Woodward and Noam Chomsky, and others on economic and military theory.

More documents may yet be released.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said a "rigorous" review had taken place before the documents were released.

The documents were recovered at this house in Abottabad, Pakistan during a 2011 raid in which Bin Laden was killed

The documents include a number of translated letters, notes, and other material detailing al-Qaeda operations. Many of the documents also have a version available in Arabic.

There is also section entitled Materials Regarding France, which includes a number of academic reports and articles about the France's military, politics and economy.

Also included is a document described as a "suicide prevention guide", several English language books including Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, several maps, and a few video game guides.

Some of the material that has been included in the trove was previously declassified for use in federal prosecutions.

In 2012, some documents recovered in the raid were released by the research wing of the US military academy, West Point.