Osama Bin Laden planning to assasinate US President Barack Obama while living sheltered life in #pakistan

Documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan show that al Qaeda spoke of attacking President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus, a source familiar with the materials recovered from the compound said Friday.

The documents refer to an attack that would destroy the aircraft carrying Obama and Petraeus in the region, the source said.


It was not immediately clear whether the documents referred to an attack that was specifically planned or whether they referred in a more general way to a desire by al Qaeda to attack the president and Petraeus, who was until recently the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan.

U.S. forces killed bin Laden during a raid on May 2. They recovered documents and other material during the raid.

Petraeus declined to comment, a spokesman said Friday.

Other materials taken from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan have confirmed that the al Qaeda leader communicated with the Yemen-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to a U.S. official familiar with the ongoing U.S. analysis of the documents.

The search through bin Laden's materials has also found direct evidence that while in hiding in Pakistan, bin Laden was encouraging direct plots to attack Americans and U.S. interests in Europe late last year, according to the U.S. official.

There were several threats at the time that led the United States to issue an October 2010 alert for Americans traveling in Europe, the source emphasized.

Bin Laden was "aware, supportive and trying to motivate his operatives in Europe. He was pushing them," the source said.

The U.S. intelligence community had classified information at the time suggesting that bin Laden was involved, the U.S. official said, but the documents taken from the compound have provided confirmation. Officials have previously said bin Laden always placed a top priority on trying to attack Americans.

from the compound have provided confirmation. Officials have previously said bin Laden always placed a top priority on trying to attack Americans.