jc05453665 i 'IOP •• sre etj - - - - - - - - - - - ' SENIOR EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEF 3May2001 I b 1 b 3 EO 12958 1 4 c 25Yrs · EO 12958 3 5 c Terrorism Bin Ladin Public Profde May Presage Attac '-----' · 10-minute videotape of Bin Laclin the widest nubl c airing · JIn a press conference in MaY 1998 j t months before the East Africa bombings Bin Ladin used the media to predict news to gladden· his supporters' hearts I • ·• Bin Ladin's heightened public profile may be an attempt to profit from the ·attention being paid to the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and to reassert his iinportance as a backer oflslamic causes Bin Ladin in January and February appeared in two videos about the wedding of his son both · featured rhetoric supporting the Al-Aqs a intifadah and the second _showed Bin Ladin reading a poem extollin the ck on the USS Colej I APPROVED FOR RELEASEL DATE 25-April-2012 I