Captured Bin-Laden Letters Claim ‘Moderate’ Fatah Offered Tribute to Al Quaeda By Aigle Middle East • May 2012 • Views: 635 On May 3, 2012, West Point’s Combatting Terrorism Center (CTC) released translations of Osama Bin Laden’s correspondence with other al Quaeda figures that was seized in the raid that killed him. The translations reveal that al Quaeda had received an offer of tribute from Fatah, the Palestinian party governing the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, which is widely depicted as moderate. While David Gartenstein-Ross cautions that “this does not actually demonstrate tribute money being offered to ‘al Qaeda,’ ” it nevertheless should raise some concern because the Palestinian Authority has received billions of dollars in aid from Western countries. The United States recently approved several hundred million dollars more in assistance.