Bin Laden Was Daydreaming about Train-Derailing Terror Plot
What do you do when you ’re a terrorist pent up in a huge , rundown compound with no speech sound or internet ? Write down “ vague , aspirational ” terror plots in your notebook computer , the NYT report . Like derailing a caravan on Christmas . The semi - secret plan , seize in a stash of documents when Bin Laden ’s house was raided , had n’t been put into any sort of apparent motion — but envisage tampering with American caravan tracks to send one flying off a span on a important day ....