Osama wanted Obama assassinated so 'unprepared' Biden could lead US to doom

Washington, Mar 17 (ANI): Before being killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden ordered his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of US President Barack Obama as it would throw America into crisis because Vice President Joe Biden was 'unprepared' for the job.

According to a document retrieved from the Abbottabad compound where Osama was shot dead by US Navy Seals on May 2, 2011, the terror group leader also planned to assassinate General David Petraeus, but also showed apparent regard for him.

"The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make (Vice President Joe) Biden take over the presidency. ... Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis," Osama wrote in the document

"As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour ... and killing him would alter the war's path" in Afghanistan," he added.

According to The Washington Post, the man Osama hoped would carry out the attacks on Obama and Petraeus was the Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed in a US drone attack a month after Osama's death.

"Please ask brother Ilyas to send me the steps he has taken into that work," Osama wrote to Rahman.

The documents revealed that Osama urged Rahman to focus "every effort that could be spent on attacks in America," instead of operations within Muslim nations.

He told Rahman to "ask the brothers in all regions if they have a brother, who can operate in the US. [He should be able to] live there, or it should be easy for him to travel there."

According to the paper, the plot to target Obama was probably bluster, since Al-Qaeda apparently lacked the weapons to shoot down US aircraft. (ANI)