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The bin Laden plot to kill President Obama
By David Ignatius, Friday, March 16, 7:58 AM
Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Obama and Gen. David H. 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] 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 wars path in Afghanistan.
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The scheme is described in one of the documents taken from bin Ladens 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 Ladens death, Kashmiri was killed in a U.S. drone attack.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)call him a Muslim terrorist Manchurian candidate.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)How would we ever know if this is Propaganda or Truth...or something inbetween.
Except our past would tell us. Those who've watched this for years and read and read and read...everything they could find.
Count me a believer that there is a strong possiblility of Partisan Politics involved in Ignatius's "Revlations."
Loudly
(2,436 posts)So many softer and more anti-Islamic targets.
What a maroon.