Tapes contain al-Qaida plans

US officials will mine the secrets of Osama bin Laden by poring over an intelligence haul seized at the time of his death that a top White House aide describes as a wealth of intelligence about al-Qaida.

“This is the largest cache of intelligence derived from the scene of any single terrorist,” national security adviser Tom Donilon said. “It’s about the size, the CIA tells us, of a small college library.”

Last week, Navy SEALs raided bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, killed him, and buried his body at sea. The information they gathered shows bin Laden actively involved in planning and directing al-Qaida’s plots.