Bin Laden wanted to carry out attacks to prevent Obama from being reelected

[Playinghardball]

Source: By Pro Publica via Raw Story

During his final years, Osama bin Laden expressed interest in everything from killing President Obama to his deputies' personalities to an article in an extremist magazine that he didn't like, according to two U.S. officials familiar with material seized during the raid that killed bin Laden.

A trove of digital communications and hand-written notes show how bin Laden ran his weakened network from his solitary hideout in a garrison town in Pakistan. He was especially engaged in decisions about leadership posts and developing plots, the officials said.

Bin Laden's writings discuss his strategic goal of carrying out attacks that would prevent President Obama from being re-elected, though he also wrote that "the alternative could be worse," a U.S. counterterror official said.

"He talks about targeting priorities," the counterterror official said. "He says the president is of course the top target if you could get a shot at him. Also the military chiefs like the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the defense secretary, top military people. There is a note indicating that the vice president is not an

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[ChazII]

1. Is Bin Laden

disrespecting the office of VP or Joe Biden?

[Robb]

2. "The alternative could be worse"

Watch for this to be spun, somehow, into "Obama is soft on terror."

[mopinko]

3. if i were joe biden i would be insulted. nt

[nichomachus]

4. So, basically, the hit on Bin Laden was just a campaign move - wow

This is going to be one hell of a campaign.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Bin Laden a member of the Tea Party? Who knew?

[blondeatlast]

6. they probably have a SCARY lot in common if you want to think about it enough.

I don't want to think about it, though!

[laconicsax]

7. It's all summarized in this image.

[blondeatlast]

8. Yup, spot-on. nt