Copies of Osama bin Laden's letters, published by the United States Military Academy on May 3, 2012, reached Jakarta's Cipinang Prison a year later. "We went over them together," said Amir Abdillah, a terrorism convict at Cipinang Prison, to Tempo last week.

The letters of bin Laden--leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization who was shot and killed in 2011--were addressed to Al Qaeda followers around the world. In one letter, Amir recalls, Bin L