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By David Gardner
Revealed: How bin Laden plotted to bring down Air Force One to kill Obama and replace him with 'totally unprepared' Biden
- Letters show that terror chief was growing impatient with his followers and the 'mistakes' they made
- Al Qaeda wanted to assassinate Obama so that an 'unprepared' Joe Biden would take over
- Terror group planned to spread propaganda ahead of 10th anniversary of 9/11 - and identified best U.S. networks to get their message out
- Described Fox News as falling 'into the abyss,' and ABC News as 'all right'
Osama Bin Laden urged followers not to 'waste our effort' with attacks on Britain, but to focus exclusively on defeating America.
He plotted to bring down a plane carrying President Obama, claiming it would mean the accession of vice-president Joe Biden, who was 'utterly unprepared' for the job.
The revelations emerged in a cache of letters and documents recovered from Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan and released online yesterday, a year after his death in a raid by US Navy SEALs.
They offer a rare insight into his thinking, with one letter drafted just a week before he died.
Bin Laden was clear he saw America as his overriding terror target.
'Even though we have the chance to attack the British, we should not waste our effort to do so but concentrate on defeating America, which will lead to defeating the others, God Willing,' he wrote.
'Any arrow and mine we have should be directed against Americans, disregarding all other enemies, including Nato, and concentrating on Americans only.'
And his prime target was President Obama.
Bin Laden ordered two units to be set up, in Pakistan and Bagram, Afghanistan the home of a major US base to attack aircraft carrying Mr Obama and his vice-president.
He clearly wanted gaffe-prone Mr Biden in the White House and said 'the killing would have a serious impact on the course of the war' because Mr Obama was 'the man of this phase'.
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