Even Bin Laden knew.
Quote:Osama bin Laden BANNED al Qaeda from trying to assassinate Joe Biden because he believedArchived Daily Mail Article:
he would be an incompetent president and 'lead the US into a crisis'
*Joe Biden has been widely condemned for pulling US troops out of Afghanistan
*Ongoing chaos in Kabul has led critics to accuse him of 'humiliating' the US
*Osama bin Laden, the man America went to Afghanistan to kill, warned in 2010
that a Biden presidency was likely to 'lead the US into a crisis'
*Bin Laden banned al Qaeda from killing Biden, hoping he would become leader
'Osama bin Laden banned al Qaeda from assassinating Joe Biden because the Democrat would become an
incompetent president and 'lead the US into a crisis' if jihadists were successful in killing Barack Obama.
The cave-dweller and the clown.
Bin Laden made the remark in a 2010 letter that was found in a trove of documents at the Pakistan compound
where he was killed by US special forces in 2011. The document was first made public in 2012 but has been
brought back to light and given new significance amid the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan that has gifted
the country back to the Taliban.
Bin Laden - then-leader of al Qaeda, and the man that America went to Afghanistan to kill - penned the 48-page
missive in May 2010 to an aide identified as 'Brother Shaykh Mahmud', real name Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.
In it, he discusses the need to direct resources away from terror attacks in other Muslim countries and instead
focus on direct attacks against the US.
On page 36, he outlines his desire to form two hit squads - one in Pakistan and another in Afghanistan - whose job
it will be to plot attacks against then-US President Barack Obama and ex-CIA director David Petraeus, should they
visit either country.
Giving his reasoning for attacking Obama, he says: '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 US into a crisis.'
He the adds: 'As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war's
path.'
US intelligence analysts who first revealed the existence of the document to the Washington Post in 2012 said neither
of the plots against Obama or Petraeus were realistic or amounted to anything.
But bin Laden's attack on Biden's abilities and his forewarning of an American 'crisis' rings truer now than it did back then.
Biden is facing mounting fury across the world for abandoning Afghans to their fate - and yesterday it emerged that his
administration was warned last month that the Afghan capital would quickly fall to the Taliban after an American withdrawal.
A dozen diplomats sent a confidential memo in a dissent channel to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on July 13 that the
Taliban was rapidly gaining ground and the city was vulnerable to collapse, the Wall Street Journal reported.
On July 8, President Biden said it was 'highly unlikely' the Taliban would take control of Afghanistan and denied there would
be chaos in Kabul. There are mounting questions over how the White House, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence services
were evaluating the future of Afghanistan, the threat of the Taliban and how quickly power would change hands.
Afghan security forces were collapsing, they said, and offered ways to mitigate the advancing insurgents.
But it may have been too late to stop them.
The State Department memo, according to the report, also called for the government to use tougher language on the violence
in the past from the Taliban and urged them to start collecting information for Afghan allies who qualified for Special Immigrant
Visas after working with US forces.
The Journal reported that 23 Embassy staffers signed the cable and rushed to deliver it considering the deteriorating situation
in Kabul. Blinken reviewed the cable, a personal familiar with it told the paper.
State Department spokesman Ned Price told the Journal: 'He's made clear that he welcomes and encourages use of the dissent
channel, and is committed to its revitalization. We value constructive internal dissent.'...'
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