Osama Bin Laden Videos Released by US Government [VIDEO]

The videos -- with him struggling to get through a taping without a mistake, or huddled in a blanket, his undyed beard obviously gray -- present an image of bin Laden that the al Qaeda leader would not have released himself, knocking him down from the larger-than-life image he tried to present, terrorism experts said.

"This is someone who realized that the image he conveyed was the main value he had to his movement," former CIA analyst Paul Pillar said. "It was part of his brand."

"This was a man who was obsessed with his image and rightly so," former acting CIA Director John McLaughlin said. "In a way, al Qaeda's most powerful tool was its use of video and its use of the Internet."

The videos also send a message to the others in al Qaeda that the United States now has a substantial trove of information from the very heart of the terror network.

The release says "that we have a lot of stuff that we took possession of on Sunday and that makes the other bad guys, other people in the organization fearful, uncertain and not sure what we got," Pillar said.

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