A year after Virginia Beach-based Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, we are seeing the terrorist’s final thoughts and words.
Today, the Combating Terrorism Center released details from some of the documents that were seized when the SEALs raided bin Laden's compound.
We are learning about 17 declassified documents of the 6, 000 seized last year.
They consist of emails and handwritten letters between Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from September 2006 to April 2011.
The documents show that until the end, Osama bin Laden remained focused on attacking Americans and coming up with plots, however improbable, to kill U.S. leaders.
He especially wanted to somehow target Air Force One, assassinating president Obama.
Bin Laden believed such a plan would elevate a quote "utterly unprepared" Joe Biden into office, plunging the U.S. into crisis.
But any mention of Pakistan is scarce and vague while there are references to their "trusted Pakistani brothers."
There is no specific mention of official support from the Pakistani government.
Meanwhile, the government's report says as a leader, bin Laden had become relatively obsolete and that while most regional terror groups now prefer small attacks by individuals, bin Laden continued to fixate on large-scale attacks like 911.
