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Galraedia

(5,025 posts)
Fri May 4, 2012, 06:37 PM May 2012

Osama Bin Laden Letters: Kill Obama to Make Biden President

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."

Read more: http://akronnewsnow.com/news/national-news/item/34194-osama-bin-laden-letters-kill-obama-to-make-biden-president

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Osama Bin Laden Letters: Kill Obama to Make Biden President (Original Post) Galraedia May 2012 OP
OMG... imagine if McCain had won. n/t Ian David May 2012 #1
This. Skinner May 2012 #5
If McCain had won Osama would still be alive FreakinDJ May 2012 #6
I was always afraid Palin would do that job herself. dkf May 2012 #9
Well, guess what Osama... Cooley Hurd May 2012 #2
Yeah, well Turbineguy May 2012 #3
Bin Laden: Not only a homicidal maniac... Skinner May 2012 #4
Wonder why they thought that treestar May 2012 #7
I'd take Biden any day Aerows May 2012 #8
I'd take Bo Rincewind May 2012 #10
So would I! Rhiannon12866 May 2012 #11
No shit! Aerows May 2012 #12

treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. Wonder why they thought that
Fri May 4, 2012, 06:48 PM
May 2012

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)
8. I'd take Biden any day
Fri May 4, 2012, 06:53 PM
May 2012

Over McCain, :shudder: Palin, and certainly the clown that is the presumptive nominee whose opinion sways in the breeze.

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