Bin Laden had been a major player on the international stage. After the attacks, he was confined mostly to a section of a 38,000-square-foot compound with no internet or phone connection, out of public sight.
He was a man who got bored, experts say, and occupied himself with mainstream movies, books by Noam Chomsky and Bob Woodward, Netflix-y documentaries and porn.
"When you study terrorist groups, that's always what's striking to people, the kind of quirky, human side of them," Dan Byman, professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told The Washington Post. "Their whole life is not spent plotting around the campfire saying, 'How do we infiltrate America's defense?'
"They'll have lots of pornography, like men all over the world. A lot of the documents are complaining about bureaucracies. What's wrong with the fax machine. They're involved in the same sort of organizational problems of bureaucracies that we all have. In some cases, a lot worse."
