Osama bin Laden had outlined a plan for then-President Barack Obama's assassination, a seized letter has revealed.
He had sought the need to build two hit squads in Pakistan and Afghanistan to plot attacks against Obama and ex-CIA director David Petraeus.
The 48-page letter published in the Republic World has reportedly shown that bin Laden had banned al-Qaeda from assassinating Joe Biden since he believed that he would be an "incompetent President.”
The document had been penned by bin Laden to an aide identified as “Shaykh Mahmud” in 2010.
The text argued the need to divert resources away from terror activities in other Muslim countries and toward direct assaults on the US.
"Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis,” Osama said.
"As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war's path," he added.
Bin Laden based his decision on his belief that Biden would be an incompetent President, and this would benefit the terrorist groups, mainly al-Qaeda and Taliban.
The letter was recovered from a trove of documents at the Pakistan compound where he was killed by US special forces in 2011. It was first made public in 2012 but gains significance amid the widespread criticism surround Biden's "chaotic" Afghanistan pullout.
CIA experts said in 2012, upon publishing the letter, that the conspiracies against Obama and Petraeus wouldn’t have made it to reality.
However, they drew attention to the importance of Osama’s assessment of Biden’s capabilities and his expectations of an upcoming crisis for the US.
Biden is currently facing severe criticism from the Democratic and Republican parties, a relapse in his popularity, and his administration is in an unfavorable position in front of the international community.
Taliban seized the Afghan capital Kabul on August 15, with minimum resistance only two weeks after clashes between the government forces and the group’s members.
