- Joe Biden has been widely condemned for pulling US troops out of Afghanistan
- Ongoing chaos in Kabul has led critics to accuse him of 'humiliating' the US
- Osama bin Laden, the man America went to Afghanistan to kill, warned in 2010 that a Biden presidency was likely to 'lead the US into a crisis'
- Bin Laden banned al Qaeda from killing Biden, hoping he would become leader
Osama bin Laden once warned al Qaeda not to target Joe Biden because he believed that his inheriting the presidency if something were to happen to Barack Obama would “lead the US into a crisis,” a resurfaced letter shows.
Bin Laden made the remark in a 2010 letter that was found in a trove of documents at the Pakistan compound where he was killed by US special forces in 2011.
The document was first made public in 2012 but has been brought back to light and given new significance amid the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan that has gifted the country back to the Taliban.
In the letter dated May 2010, the al Qaeda 9/11 mastermind wrote he had no assassination plots against Biden because he deemed him “totally unprepared” to lead the United States.
Instead, bin Laden urged his followers to be on the lookout for then-President Obama.
He told them there was a high priority to target aircrafts belonging to Obama and then-CIA director David Petraeus.
“They are not to target visits by US Vice President Biden. The groups will remain on the lookout for Obama or Petraeus,” bin Laden wrote.
“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there.
“Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis.
“As for Petraeus, he is the man of the house in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war’s path.”
The letter was uncovered in a treasure-trove of documents found in the terrorist’s Pakistan hideout after he was killed by US forces in a raid on May 2, 2011.
The documents, penned between 2006 and 2011, are publicly available through West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.
Bid Laden’s criticism of Biden has resurfaced amid the botched withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover.
The letter was uncovered in a treasure-trove of documents found in the terrorist’s Pakistan hideout after he was killed by US forces in a raid on May 2, 2011.
It comes as Biden on Friday delayed for at least a day plans to relax at his home in Delaware as tens of thousands of American and Afghan citizens remain stranded in Kabul.