The final writings of Osama bin Laden were revealed today by the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy in a report entitled ‘Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Laden Sidelined?’
STORY: One Year Later & Osama Still Wants Barack Dead
The one time most wanted man in the world expressed his anger and fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West.
Through a selection of documents seized in last year’s raid on his Pakistan compound, the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy released many of the last writings of Bin Laden.
Bin Laden 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.
According to White House counterterrorism Chief John Brennan, Bin Laden wrote of his worries that his leaders were being killed so quickly that his al-Qaeda group would not survive. It also comes the day after U.S. President Barack Obama revealed he felt a ‘deep-seated satisfaction’ when he saw a photo of the dead terror chief’s body for the first time.
Obama said the sight of the bullet-ridden corpse made him think of the families of those who died on 9/11 – but denied that he did a high five in his mind.
In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, key White House players speak in depth about the day the operation took place.
Obama stayed up late weighing his options, then the next morning decided a SEAL strike was the best way forward – and gave his approval to ‘Operation Neptune’s Spear’ saying:
“I did choose the risk. The reason I was willing to make that decision of sending in our SEALs to try to capture or kill bin Laden rather than to take some other options was ultimately because I had 100 per cent faith in the Navy SEALs themselves.”
Obama added :
“Ultimately it was a 50/50 proposition as to whether this was actually Bin Laden.”
Indeed the world is a safer place without Bin Laden and the decision changed Obama’s presidency forever.
