Thoughts: Osama bin Laden struggled to command the attention of his far-flung terror network 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.
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Letters show that terror chief was growing impatient with his followers and the 'mistakes' they made
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Al Qaeda wanted to assassinate Obama so that an 'unprepared' Joe Biden would take over
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Terror group planned to spread propaganda ahead of 10th anniversary of 9/11 - and identified best U.S. networks to get their message out
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Described Fox News as falling 'into the abyss,' and ABC News as 'all right'
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