By msnbc.com staff
Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate Barack Obama so that the "utterly unprepared" Joe Biden would become U.S. president, according to documents seized last year during the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaida leader.
In letters from his last hideout -- according to a report called "Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?"�that was posted online Thursday by the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center -- bin Laden also�fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West.�
Read the Combating Terrorism Center's report (pdf)
Other materials found inside the compound last May have revealed how al-Qaida's then leader regularly ordered his subordinates to plan�new attacks, despite an increasingly limited cadre of operatives.�
Bin Laden in hiding: Hatching horrific plots despite crippling attacks on al-Qaida
During the raid, Navy Seals recovered five computers, 10 hard drives and more than 100 storage devices -- DVDs, discs and thumb drives -- �that included between 10,000 and 15,000 documents and between 15,000 to 25,000 videos, including a large number of duplicate files.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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