Published 11:15 IST, August 21st 2021

Osama Bin Laden wanted Biden to be President so he 'would lead US into crisis': Report

Osama bin Laden's letter forewarning of an American 'crisis' under Biden's Presidency comes as fury mounts against the US President for 'abandoning' Afghans.

Reported by: Ananya Varma
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Slain Al Qaeda leer Osama bin Len h backed Joe Biden for post of US President in 2010 saying that he would 'le US into a crisis', a seized letter has revealed. 48-p missive recovered from a series of documents from 9/11 mastermind has reportedly shown that Osama bin Len h banned Al Qaeda from assassinating Joe Biden since he believed that he would be an 'incompetent President'. 

Osama bin Len wanted Biden's Presidency: Report

 document has been penned by Len to an aide identified as 'Bror Shaykh Mahmud' in 2010 when former President Barack Obama was at helm of affairs. According to DailyMail, Osama h outlined a plan for n-President Barack Obama's assassination and h sought need to build two hit squs- in Pakistan and Afghanistan to plot attacks against Obama and ex-CIA director David Petraeus.

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On p 36 he says, "Obama is he of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over presidency for remainder of term, as it is rm over re. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will le US into a crisis."

letter was recovered from a trove of documents at  Pakistan compound where he was killed by US special forces in 2011. It was first me public in 2012 but gains significance amid widespre criticism surround Joe Biden's 'chaotic' Afghanistan pullout. 

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It is pertinent to te that in June 2020, Donald Trump Jr. h highlighted a scrap of document on his YouTube program "Triggered". In months leing up to US Elections, Donald Trump Jr. h stated that Osama bin Len wanted Obama assassinated since it would put an 'incompetent' Biden in-charge of affairs. "He wanted to assassinate President Obama because it would put Joe Biden in charge, and essentially he's so grossly incompetent, it would le to destruction of America," Trump Jr. said June 18, 2020.

Biden under criticism for Afghanistan crisis

Len's letter forewarning of an American 'crisis' under Biden's Presidency comes as fury mounts against US President for 'abandoning' Afghans. Joe Biden has t only been blamed for his 'failed' evacuation plan in Afghanistan, but for passing several 'insensitive' comments against state of Afghan citizens amid Taliban takeover. 

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In his first interview after  Taliban overran Kabul, US President defended country's pullout from Afghanistan saying that  overall process of withdrawal 'could t have been done without any chaos'. He n drew severe backlash for t kwing when video of Afghans falling off a US military plane leaving Kabul emerged. 

Later it was revealed that a dozen diplomats sent a confidential memo to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on July 13 warning that Taliban was rapidly gaining ground. document revealed that US knew as far back as in July that capital city of Kabul was vulnerable to collapse, Wall Street Journal reported.

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However, Biden has responded to chaos saying that ' crisis was inevitable'. “re was way in which you could have gotten out without seeing what you are seeing today," he has claimed.

11:14 IST, August 21st 2021