More than 6,000 pages documents seized during the May 1, 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden were released on Thursday by West Point...
The raw documents--both the Arabic originals and versions translated and summarized in English--were posted on the center's website shortly before 9 a.m. ET. They were uncovered from bin Laden's Abbottabad compound by U.S. forces.
As was previously reported, the documents show that bin Laden had ordered the assassinations of President Barack Obama and U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, but did not have the resources to carry out the killings.
"Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President Joe] Biden take over the presidency," Bin Laden wrote in a message to one of his top lieutenants, the Washington Post noted. "Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis."
"Bin Laden would come up with an idea but it was a very broad aspirational idea," an administration official told NBC ahead of the West Point release. "And then he'd turn it over to somebody and there was always some sort of disconnect."
By the end of 2010, the official added, "there was certainly a sense of loss in terms of the senior leaders that perished, a sense that the midlevel cadre had been decimated."
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