Bin Laden warned of ‘disaster after disaster’ for al-Qaeda in seized documents: U.S.
The United States plans this week to publish documents seized from Osama bin Laden’s hideout in which the late terror leader complained of “disaster after disaster” befalling aQaeda.
“In documents we seized, he confessed to ‘disaster after disaster,’“ said top White House counter-terror official John Brennan, announcing the material would be published online by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.
The documents were gathered by Navy commandos from Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2 last year.
The trove included correspondence between the terror leader and affiliates, and his own hand-written diary.
John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism adviser, says the U.S. is safer with Bin Laden gone, along with other key leaders killed after the raid.
He quoted Bin Laden himself, who wrote that the group would not survive with its experienced chiefs being removed faster than he could replace them.