The application form to join al Qaeda is eerily mundane

The application form for al Qaeda is eerily mundane
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The Director of National Intelligence on Wednesday released a tranche of English-language documents seized from Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that have shed new light on the former leader of al Qaeda, including that he was something of a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

Another document that surfaced gives new meaning to the banality of evil: the al Qaeda job application form. As Gawker's Sam Biddle notes, the form includes questions like:

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Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.