Osama bin Laden wanted much of his fortune used ‘on jihad’

“I was told that you went to a dentist in Iran, and you were concerned about a filling she put in for you”.

The document was among a tranche of newly declassified files that had been seized by Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011 when they descended on Bin Laden’s hideout in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad and killed him.

The documents also reveal that as far back as the mid- 2000s there were fears from some in Al-Qaeda that some in the group’s Iraq franchise were attempting to split from the “core” organisation based in Pakistan. They show a micro-manager in hiding, increasingly anxious about security, and they dispute USA suggestions at the time of his death that bin Laden was unable to supervise al-Qaida. Abu Abdallah al-Halabi – who the U.S. Treasury has identified as a name used by bin Laden’s son-in law Muhammad Abdallah Hasan Abu-Al-Khayr – writes in a letter to “my esteemed brother Khalid” about intercepting messages of “spies” in Pakistan, who he said would facilitate air strikes on al Qaeda operatives by marking cars with infrared streaks that can be seen with night vision equipment.

“The size of the chip is about the length of a grain of wheat and the width of a fine piece of vermicelli”, he wrote.

In a letter dated August 15, 2008, bin Laden asked that his father take care of his wife and children in the event he died first.

“America appears to be hanging on by a thin thread”, he wrote.

“Of course you know how important they are and how we need to exploit (9/11) in the media as the embodiment of the victories of Muslims”.

Beginning last summer, the CIA spearheaded an interagency review of the classified documents under the auspices of the White House’s National Security Council staff. Representatives from seven agencies combed through the documents.

The will was among more than 100 documents made public by the * a href=”http://www.dni.gov/index.php/resources/bin-laden-bookshelf?start=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=*Situation%20Report” target=”_blank” *Office of the Director of National Intelligence. At some point the plan changed and the hostages in question were released in 2013, two years after bin Laden’s death.

“Praise God, who made al-Qa’ida a great vexation upon him, squatting on his chest, enraging and embittering him, and who made al-Qa’ida a torment and exemplary punishment upon him, this truly vile hallucinating individual who troubles us in front of the world!” he wrote.

In one document, bin Laden issues instructions to al Qaeda members holding an Afghan hostage to be wary of possible tracking technology attached to the ransom payment.