Friday, March 16, 2012

In his final days, Osama planned to kill Obama, attack US


WASHINGTON: In his final days, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was planning assassination attempts against US President Barack Obama and another attack on the American soil, according to a media report on Saturday.

"Tapping away at his computer in the study of the suburban compound in Abbottabad...Laden wrote memos urging his followers to continue to try to attack the US, suggesting, for instance, they mount assassination attempts against President Obama and Gen
David Petraeus," the CNN's National Security Analyst Peter Bergan wrote. At that time, Petraeus was the commanding general of NATO forces in Afghanistan.

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