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| Osama wanted Obama assassinated, |
| Osama wanted Obama assassinated, so 'inexperienced' Biden would take over
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 4-May-2012
6:27:5 AM |
| Osama bin Laden showed disdain for Al Qaeda affiliates, fretted about his organization's image and was deeply worried about its security, according to documents seized from his hideout in Pakistan and released publicly on Thursday.
The Combating Terrorism Center, a privately funded research center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, posted on its website 17 declassified documents seized during the raid on bin Laden's house in Abbottabad in which he was killed by U.S. commandos a year ago. (http:www.ctc.usma.edu)
Bin Laden "was not, as many thought, the puppet master pulling the strings that set in motion jihadi groups around the world," an analysis by the center said. Bin Laden "was burdened by what he saw as their incompetence."
The Al Qaeda leader, who was behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, worried about operational security, advising against meeting on roads and then traveling in cars.
Bin Laden expressed concern about Muslims being killed in Al Qaeda operations and wanted women and children kept away from danger.
In an undated letter in the summer or early autumn of 2010, bin Laden asked that two teams - one in Pakistan and the other in the Bagram area of Afghanistan - be tasked with spotting and targeting the aircraft of U.S. President Barack Obama or General David Petraeus, who was commander in the region at that time.
But they were not to target U.S. Vice President Joe Biden because if Obama were gone, Biden would be "totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis." But killing Petraeus "would alter the war's path."
The 17 documents are electronic letters or draft letters totaling 175 pages in the original Arabic, dating from September 2006 to April 2011. They do not all specify who wrote or received them.
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