Months before his killing in May 2011, al-Qaeda chief Osama bin laden was "utterly" focused on striking the US in its "heartland" and having a truce with Pakistan besides forging an alliance with the jihadist groups spawned by the Arab Spring, according to documents.
Declassified by the US government a few months ago in a New York court case against a Pakistani named Abid Naseer, details of these emails obtained from the Abbottabad hideout of Osama was reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday.
From his hideout in Pakistan’s garrison town of Abbottabad, Osama was directing a terrorist "great game" to hit the US again and making strategies to achieve his goal.
"Hunkered down in Abbottabad, bin laden was utterly focused on striking the US in its heartland. He noted that the slow bleed wasn’t working: Vietnam had been far more costly to America than Afghanistan; al-Qaeda’s allies would have to kill 100 times more people to equal the Vietnam death toll," the daily reported.