Bin Laden left $29m inheritance for jihad

Mar 04, 2016, 02:12

A handwritten will by Osama bin Laden said he had a fortune of "about 29 million dollars" and that most of it should be spent "on Jihad", according to documents released by the USA government on Tuesday. The four page letter was siezed in the May 2, 2011 raid on bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout, along with other documents, and is a part of the second batch of documents that were translated and released by US Intelligence agencies.

"Therefore care must be given to it and preparation should be given to it".

One of the biggest struggles was the growing schism between al Qaida's central leadership and that of al Qaida in Iraq (AQI), the forerunner to the IS terror group, which was already expressing the strong desire to declare the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate before defeating the US and the West.

The undated, unsigned letter "to the American people", which USA intelligence officials attributed to bin Laden, appeared to have been written shortly after Obama began his first term in 2009, based on the letter's references to events. "He did a lot of that".

Members of bin Laden's family were held in Iran for years in a murky state of house arrest, leading to speculation that al-Qaida and Tehran had formed a wary partnership. In a May 11, 2010 letter to his then second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al Rahman, bin Laden urged caution in arranging an interview with al Jazeera journalist Ahmad Zaidan, asserting that the United States could be tracking his movements through devices implanted in his equipment, or by satellite.

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In the will Bin Laden indicates that he had around $29 million in Sudan, collected from various sources including his brother "Abu Bakr Muhammad Bin (Laden) on behalf of Binladin company for investment in Sudan". "As they are hoisting the banner of opposing opinions, this is an opportunity for us to explain our motivations for the continuation of this war".

The financial hardships of al Qaeda also come through in the documents, with bin Laden suggesting a scheme that would extort money from other countries, Mauritania among them, in exchange for a promise from al Qaeda not to attack them in the future.

Al-Qaida was planning a media blitz to mark the anniversary. Fisk could not immediately be reached for comment.

Released by the Director of National Intelligence, "Bin Laden's Bookshelf" follows two previous releases from the cache discovered in the Abbottabad compound.

The Iranian dentist might have used a slightly enlarged syringe to make such an implant, bin Laden wrote in the undated letter.

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Al Qaeda commanders should improve their selection of verbiage, media producers should avoid exaggerations, pictures shouldn't be doctored and no materials should mention suicide bombers who balked after arriving at their targets, he added.

Bin Laden sought to portray the U.S. as mired in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan.

"The size of the chip is about the length of a grain of wheat and the width of a fine piece of vermicelli", he said. He also appeared increasingly disconnected from how much his organisation had been degraded, calling on deputies to mount operations and fill positions even as they pleaded that they lacked capable recruits.

But bin Laden wanted the bulk of the money to go to jihadist activities.

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