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The Bin Laden Plot to Kill President Obama

(Washington Post) David Ignatius - Before his death, Osama bin Laden commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Obama and Gen. David H. Petraeus. The scheme is described in one of the documents taken from bin Laden's 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. The man bin Laden hoped would carry out the attacks was the Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri. A month after bin Laden's death, Kashmiri was killed in a U.S. drone attack. The plot to target Obama was probably bluster, but it's a chilling reminder that even when he was in hiding, bin Laden still dreamed of pulling off another spectacular terror attack against the U.S.
2012-03-19 00:00:00
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