A study of newly declassified documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan last year reveals a terrorist leader frustrated with regional jihadi groups and his own inability to exercise control over them.
The Combating Terrorism Center on the U.S. military academy at West Point says the late al-Qaida leader's frustration is the "most compelling story to be informed" by the 17 declassified documents. The privately-funded research institution released the documents and its analysis of them on Thursday.
The center says contrary to what a lot of people thought, bin Laden was not "the puppet master pulling the strings that set in motion jihadi groups world wide."
U.S. special commandos killed bin Laden in a covert raid on his house within the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad on May 2, 2011. The assault team confiscated a wealth of fabric, including movies and private correspondence.
The Combating Terrorism Center says the main focus of bin Laden's private letters is Muslims' suffering by the hands of his jihadi "brothers." The center's report says bin Laden was "burdened by what he viewed because the incompetence" of the al-Qaida affiliates, including their "poorly planned operations which led to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Muslims."
The al-Qaida leader was reportedly "at pains" advising the groups to forestall domestic attacks that cause Muslim civilian casualties. Instead, he wanted them to target the us, which he described as "our desired goal."
Bin Laden wanted especially to focus on airplanes carrying then-commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus and U.S. President Barack Obama. The Combating Terrorism Center says he explained that President Obama's death would see the "utterly unprepared" Vp Joe Biden assume the presidency and send the U.S. into crisis.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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