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Summary The United States on Thursday released 17 documents found at Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
The White House allowed the declassified documents to be published online by the Combating Terrorism Center at the West Point military academy. The papers include letters or draft letters dated from September 2006 to April 2011, a total of 175 pages in the original Arabic.In a letters from his last hideout, Osama bin Laden fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West.While bin Laden saw al-Qaidas standing with Muslim populations at risk of crumbling, the documents show he remained focused on attacking Americans and coming up with plots, however improbable, to kill U.S. leaders.He wished especially to target airplanes carrying Gen. David Petraeus and even President Barack Obama, reasoning that an assassination would elevate an utterly unprepared Vice President Joe Biden into the presidency and plunge the U.S. into crisis.Osama Bin Laden was killed last year in a US raid at his compound in Pakiwstans city Abbottabad.
