A previously secret document found at Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan sets out a detailed al Qaeda strategy for attacking targets in Europe and the United States. The document -- a letter written to bin Laden in March 2010 by a senior operational figure in the terror group -- reveals that tunnels, bridges, dams, undersea pipelines and internet cables were among the targets. It was written by Younis al-Mauretani, a senior al Qaeda planner thought to have been behind an ambitious plan to hit "soft" targets in Europe in the fall of 2010. The U.S. Department of Justice passed the letter to German prosecutors last year for use in an ongoing trial in Dusseldorf because it possibly refers to one of the defendants, according to the German newspaper Die Zeit, which first broke the story.
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It was written by Younis al-Mauretani, a senior al Qaeda planner
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He is believed to have been behind an ambitious plan to hit "soft" targets in Europe
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He proposed that al Qaeda recruits take jobs with companies transporting gasoline
Several of al-Mauretani's western recruits -- trained in the tribal territories of @placeholder -- have been arrested on their return home.