The documents are revealed: “bin Laden was eager to recover from the 9/11 attacks”
Hundreds of thousands of letters seized at the place where the al-Qaeda leader was hiding, show that he wanted to continue carrying out huge attacks against the United States, and even considered renting private jets.
Osama bin Laden was “very eager to recreate the 9/11 attacks” against the United States – and tried to initiate attacks with oil tankers, derailing trains and using private jets as weapons. This is according to a variety of documents that were discovered.
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Bin Laden’s plans carry out more than 500,000 letters and documents seized by the Navy SEAL team in 2011, when they put an end to a ten-year manhunt and managed to locate and kill al-Qaeda leader. Bin Laden used to write letters, backed up on hard drives, because he did not have internet access while hiding.
Nelly Lahwad, an Islam researcher who has worked hard for years on the captured findings, said bin Laden was “aware” that security had become “very difficult at airports” after the deadliest attack in history – so he planned to hire private jets to attack the US.
Knowing that this too would be difficult, he worked on a detailed plan to assassinate Americans traveling by train. He wanted to remove a 12-meter rail so that “the train could derail,” she told Lahwd, who, as mentioned, first analyzed the documents for the West Point Terrorism Center.
“We found that he explained the simple toolkit that could be used. He said, ‘You can use a compressor, or an iron smelting tool,'” said Lahwud, noting that bin Laden had a degree in civil engineering.
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In 2010, a year before his death, Ben Laadam planned to target a number of crude oil tankers and major shipping routes across the Middle East and Africa. According to Lahwad, bin Laden saw “the importance of oil for the industrialized economy as similar to human blood.”
“So if you make someone bleed too much, even if you do not kill him – at least you will weaken him,” she said. “He really wanted to target the American economy.”
But as is well known, the plans never materialized, and according to the analysis, the individual was “far” from controlling al-Qaeda. “We see in the letters bin Laden as someone very different from this powerful figure we read about in the newspapers every day for more than a decade,” she said. “And the disconnect between his ambitions and his abilities is confusing.”
Lahwood noted that al-Qaeda’s leader erred in predicting the US response to the 9/11 attacks. “He thought the American people would take to the streets, and demonstrate as they did in the Vietnam War what would put pressure on the government.”
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