Adam Curtis's 'The power of nightmares' documentary, asserts the US paid Jamal al-Fadl, to testify that Bin Laden was the head of Al-Qaeda. Curtis states that Al-Qaeda had never been contributed to Bin Laden before then. Is this historically accurate?
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