Osama bin Laden was concocting a plan to assassinate President Obama and then-Gen. David Petraeus, according to reports in The Washington Post and the U.K. Daily Mail.
Bin Laden was discussing the plan with his lieutenants shortly before his death at the hands of U.S. special operations forces, according to information recently released by American intelligence officials and cited by the newspapers.
Information on the assassination plot was uncovered within the trove of documents and personal letters gathered at bin Laden's Abottabad compound in northern Pakistan. The plot, assigned by bin Laden to Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri, focused on using specially trained al Qaeda cells to shoot down aircraft carrying Obama and Petraeus. The retired four-star general and current CIA chief was commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan at the time of the plot.
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To me this is a given.It seems as though anything American was a potential target.I for one am glad there was not a live OBL capture and subsequent trial.I still hear the hell raising about his "murder",citing him as an unarmed and defenseless person who should have been taken alive.The world is better off with him gone.
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