Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said during a roundtable conference that the "intelligence harvest" could ultimately prove "as important if not more important than the actual killing of bin Laden." The materials are hoped to shed light on whether Pakistan played a role in sheltering bin Laden and how he lived allegedly undetected down the street from the nation's military academy.
A CIA task force has "already conducted a preliminary analysis of the material," according to The Wall Street Journal, and "is hunting for leads on the location of bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is widely expected to ascend to the top of Al Qaeda, as well as information about new plots, names of other terrorists and any information about whether members of the Pakistani government helped conceal bin Laden."
Then again, US officials might have nothing, and all the speculation may be merely an attempt to "unnerve Al Qaeda members," says the Journal.
