Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate United States President Barack Obama, the al Qaeda chief’s journal seized by US forces revealed, according to a report published in the Daily Mail. The mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks wanted to kill the president in a follow up mission, 10 years after the devastating 2001 attack, said the report.
The seized documents revealed that the al Qaeda leader was still plotting attacks against the US. Bin Laden’s own writings indicated that he had urged followers to assassinate Obama as a way of disrupting the 2012 presidential election, said the Mail. It quoted former intelligence officials as saying that bin Laden was focussed on killing the president.
“I would say this is probably very personal on bin Laden’s part, to kill [Obama] that he believes has violated the Muslim faith,” Brad Garrett, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation profiler, told ABC News. “He is incensed, inflamed, obsessed about killing the president.”
