Bin Laden. Before being killed, he wanted to change the name of Al-Qaeda

Osama bin Laden, anxious to see Al-Qaeda suffer "disaster after disaster," had thought about changing the name of his terrorist group, said Monday the White House before the publication of documents seized during the raid against the lair of the extremist leader, a year ago, Pakistan. These documents will be published on the Internet by the military academy at West Point shows that members of Al Qaeda are aware "that this is a fight they will never win  And Bin Laden knew it. In the documents we seized, he acknowledged suffer disaster after disaster ", said the principal adviser to President Barack Obama on counterterrorism, John Brennan. "When we assess the state of al Qaeda in 2012, we can say that through our efforts, the United States and Americans are safer" , John Brennan assured in a speech before the group reflection "Wilson Center" in Washington, a few hours of the anniversary of the U.S. commando raid in which bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad in Pakistan, May 2, 2011.

Al-Qaeda has struggled to replace its leaders

Referring to the bombing of U.S. drones that have killed many extremist cadres of the nebula in recent years, particularly in Pakistan, John Brennan assured that "with its leaders the best trained and most experienced that disappeared if quickly, Al Qaeda is struggling to replace them " . According to the advisor of Barack Obama, "  bin Laden was concerned, and j e quote, from the rise in the hierarchy (combatants) who would not be as experienced, and that would mean repeating mistakes  . " Today, "the leaders of Al Qaeda continue to have difficulty communicating with their staff and affiliated groups morale is low" , assured the councilor, who observes that "the image of al- Qaeda is so damaged that bin Laden has even thought about changing the name " of the nebula extremist he had founded.

U.S. authorities on their guard

John Brennan was kept for complacency, however, while the attacks attributed to the nebula have been foiled narrowly against the American homeland ago just two years in New York at Christmas 2009 and against an airliner approaching Detroit.  But he expressed confidence that "this will be the decade of the end" for Al Qaeda, and suggested that "for the first time since the fighting began, we can envision a world in which the heart of Al Qaeda will have more importance " .