Osama bin Laden wanted to 'replicate 9/11' and plotted further atrocities, new letters reveal
dailystar.co.uk9/11 attacks" and actively plotted to cause further damage by derailing trains and use jets as weapons, according to newly surfaced documents.
Over 500,000 letters and files seized by the Navy SEAL team that found and executed the Al-Qaeda leader in 2011 spelt out the atrocities, according to an Islamic scholar who spent years studying them.
Nelly Lahoud, a member of New America’s International Security program, said the terrorist knew security had become "very difficult at airports" so plotted other means for attack, New York Post reports.This included using private jets to attack the US.He also meticulously planned to kill US residents on trains and said he wanted to remove 40ft of track so a "train could be derailed," Lahoud said.“And we find him explaining the simple toolkit that they could use.
You know, he said: ‘You could use a compressor. You could use a smelting iron tool.'"Lahoud said that the terrorist was so scared in hiding after September 11 that he didn't talk to his henchmen for three years, noting that the plots detailed in the letters began from 2004.
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