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AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Osama bin Laden asked that Al Qaeda create hit squads to kill President Obama and General David Petraeus, but that Vice President Biden be spared because Biden is "totally unprepared for the presidency" and making him president by killing Obama would "lead the U.S. into a crisis."
In a 45-page letter to a newly promoted al Qaeda lieutenant in May 2010, part of a trove of documents found in bin Laden's Pakistan compound that were placed online Thursday by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, bin Laden tells him he had asked his predecessor to put together two teams in Pakistan and Afghanistan to target Petraeus and Obama during their visits.
"They are not to target visits by U.S. Vice President Biden, Secretary of Defense Gates, Joints Chiefs of Staff [Chairman] Mullen, or the Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Holbrooke," wrote bin Laden. "The groups will remain on the lookout for Obama or Petraeus."
"The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis."
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Ian David
(69,059 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)He got YOU first!
Turbineguy
(37,392 posts)bin Laden's dead and Biden's alive and I'm just fine with that.
Skinner
(63,645 posts)...but also completely clueless about US Politics.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Biden has been in the Senate for many more years than Obama, is a lot older - why did they think Biden couldn't handle the presidency? Well, we are talking about the mind of OBL, which didn't have a lot of logical sense in it.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Over McCain, :shudder: Palin, and certainly the clown that is the presumptive nominee whose opinion sways in the breeze.
Rincewind
(1,207 posts)over Palin.
Rhiannon12866
(206,600 posts)From what the First Lady has said, he's not only smarter, but has a better temperament.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)At least it would have some compassion, intelligence and loyalty.