Issues
Bin Laden wanted President Obama killed
Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus.
“The reason for concentrating on them,” the al-Qaeda leader explained to his top lieutenant, “is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make (Vice President Joe) Biden take over the presidency. … Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour … and killing him would alter the war’s path” in Afghanistan.
The long-hunted al-Qaeda leader and chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States was killed by U.S. forces May 1 in a surgical raid.
Administration officials said Friday the Obama-Petraeus plot was never a serious threat.
The scheme is described in one of the documents taken from bin Laden’s compound by U.S. forces on May 2, the night he was killed. I was given an exclusive look at some of these remarkable documents by a senior administration official. They have been declassified and will be available soon to the public in their original Arabic texts and translations.
The man bin Laden hoped would carry out the attacks on Obama and Petraeus was the Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri. “Please ask brother Ilyas to send me the steps he has taken into that work,” bin Laden wrote to his top lieutenant, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman. A month after bin Laden’s death, Kashmiri was killed in a U.S. drone attack.
The plot to target Obama was probably bluster, since al-Qaeda apparently lacked the weapons to shoot down U.S. aircraft. But it’s a chilling reminder that even when he was embattled and in hiding, bin Laden still dreamed of pulling off another spectacular terrorist attack against the United States.
The terrorist leader urged in a 48-page directive to Atiyah to focus “every effort that could be spent on attacks in America,” instead of operations within Muslim nations. He told Atiyah to “ask the brothers in all regions if they have a brother … who can operate in the U.S. [He should be able to] live there, or it should be easy for him to travel there.”
U.S. analysts don’t see evidence that these plots have materialized. “The organization lacks the ability to plan, organize and execute complex, catastrophic attacks, but the threat persists,” says a senior administration analyst who has carefully reviewed the documents.
The bin Laden who emerges from these communications is a terrorist CEO in an isolated compound, brooding that his organization has ruined its reputation by killing too many Muslims in its jihad against America. He writes of the many departed “brothers” who have been lost to U.S. drone attacks. But he’s far from the battlefield himself in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he seems to spend considerable time watching television.
The garbled syntax of Bin Laden’s communications may result from their being dictated to several of his wives, according to the U.S. analyst. And his rambling laundry list of recommendations illustrates the problems of communicating with subordinates when it could take several months to receive an answer. The al-Qaeda leader had a “great fear of irrelevance,” the analyst believes.
Washington Post
1 Comment to “Bin Laden wanted President Obama killed”
May 21, 2012 at 1:37 am
absolute BS in my opinion.Bin’s been dead for 10 years. He had chrionc Diabetes and kidny problems. He was also (on record) interviewed by the CIA weeks prior to 9/11 and they let him go!Sorry but this is all bullshit of the highest order. Yet again the media and the govt has managed to hoodwink the masses into believing crap. Morale in the U.S. is at a low with just as many citizens (with respect to numbers) as the U.K. asking to pull our soldiers out of Afghanistan. The so called War on Terror isnt working. Bu$h’s wars that he re-started for his dad are continuing and will do until the Illuminati have total control over the middle east viz-a-viz the oil (yes that old chestnut)Laden’s bin on ice for 10 years for such an occasion. Coincedence its on May1st? no. U.S. special forces invading another country without permission (lol all you want there) kill someone and then evac lmFAO. Bullshit.Body buried at sea in respect of religion oh lord stop me please DNA matched to that of Laden, well of course it is, theyve had his body for 10 years!Just as i though millions of people were waking upto the threat/fact of the NWO and now this spanner is thrown in and we see millions of people totally sucked in by this facade of bullshit.People wake up smell the coffee .PLEASE