It is true that the guiding principle of a Secret Cell is to preclude all 'Organizational' trappings, where the idea is to maintain as much isolation as possible between the separate branches. Therefore it always surprises me when the USA makes such an issue of capturing the 'Leaders', because, if they had done their jobs correctly, they would indeed know almost absolutely nothing of the Cells and their operation.

The reason the USA should know this is because Al Quaida was effectively created by the USA, its CIA. Bin Laden was a paid agent of the CIA who was brought in organize a sort of Foreign Legion Resistance to the Soviets in Afganistan. He was given training materials, one particular pamphlet was instructions upon how to establish an Organization, or rather a Non-Organization of Secret Cells -- a force of Insurgent Fighters who would be secure despite the capture and interrogation of any of its members -- only individual Cells would be vulnerable, since no Secret Cell Member should ever know the tactical details involving the operations of any other Cell. I've heard that even today Al Quaida still works with texts of their original CIA documents. Effectively, Al Quaida was and perhaps still is a CIA Operation. As has been pointed out sufficiently, the existence of Al Quaida has only furthered the Agenda of the Powerful Elites in Washington. and it must be remarkable that America's Spy Satellites that can read newspaper headlines on a cloudy day, can't find Osama Bin Ladin -- a six foot three Arab whose face is now as recognizable as any media super star.