Pentagon documents give glimpse of al-Qaida recruits

Recruits to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist training camps in Afghanistan were clamouring for suicide missions against the United States more than a year before the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to al-Qaida documents that the US Defence Department has declassified.

One document published on the Pentagon website this week contains rare criticism of bin Laden from an al-Qaida operative, who accuses the master terrorist of monopolising decision-making and ignoring advice.