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‘Bin Laden’s last days in Abbottabad were similar to Hilter’s in Berlin bunker’ | According to declassified documents released by the US , it has emerged that Osama bin Laden spent his last days in the Abbottabad compound similar to how Hitler spent inside a bunker in Berlin. The documents claim that in his final
days, Osama was still ordering attack after attack on "only the Americans," but
it wasn’t clear if any of his orders were being carried out. “I'm reminded of
the final days of Adolf Hitler in the bunker in Berlin , when he was giving orders
for divisions and armies to be moved around and those divisions and armies didn't
exist,” ABC News quoted former White House counter-terror advisor Richard Clarke,
as saying. Documents released by the Combating Terror Center at West Point showed
bin Laden asking for updates on a plot "using poison" that was being planned by
one al Qaeda team in Yemen, just days before he was killed in a U.S. raid in May
2011. It has also emerged that bin Laden sought 10 new recruits who were willing
to "study aviation" and "conduct suicide operations," apparently in plans for
a second 9/11-style attack. The documents also reveal bin Laden's order to assassinate
President Obama, and not to target Vice President Biden, because bin Laden believed
Biden was "totally unprepared" to become president and by assuming the post would
"lead the U.S. into a crisis." Bin Laden believed that Al Qaeda affiliates like
the Taliban and al Shabaab had hurt the reputation of Al Qaeda in the Muslim world
with attacks that claimed Muslim lives. “He pushed categorically to stop mass
casualty bombings, especially of Muslims. He was involved in trying to back off
Al Qaeda in Iraq from killing a range of Muslims. ... In North Africa . . . he
tried to back off al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb from killing some French hostages
because he didn't want the full force of the French to come down on him,” Seth
Jones, author of the just-released book “Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of
al Qa'ida Since 9/11”, was quoted as saying.
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