Mr. Mohamed said that when he returned to Sudan and showed Mr. bin Laden his file, "bin Laden looked at the picture of the American Embassy and pointed to where a truck could go as a suicide bomber".
As a school debater he developed a tactic of intimidating opponents by arriving at contests pushing a trolley laden with files (it is claimed that most of the files were filled with blank notecards).
But defense lawyers for that defendant, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was a driver for Osama bin Laden, have filed nearly 30 legal motions, raising questions that included procedural issues and basic challenges to the Guantánamo system itself.
MGM had been set to release "Red Dawn" in November, but the debt-laden studio filed for bankruptcy the month before and emerged under new leadership at the end of the year.
The defense argued that it did not matter whether Bin Laden saw the files, and that such evidence could be inflammatory and distracting.
One, apparently by bin Laden — these are files, according to the C.T.C., "saved on thumb drives, memory cards or the hard drive" of bin Laden's computer, and the authorship, and whether they are drafts or were sent, is not always clear — includes a petulant passage about all his people's errors: I am worried about the brothers making political gaffes.
In the studio was a file cabinet laden with cut vegetables and dip and a bowl of peanuts, but none of the overeaters touched the food.
"Osama bin Laden, I had a file on that guy four inches thick from all the research that I'd done," she said.
But, as was the rule during those years of incompetency and no desire to find bin Laden, the tip was filed away somewhere in some room -- and not discovered until 2010.
