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Bin Laden Eyed Attack for 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Former Al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden was working to assemble a team to coordinate an attack on the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a senior U.S. official tells Fox News.

The information was discovered in the data that Navy SEALs seized from Bin Laden’s Pakistan compound during a raid in May that killed the terrorist leader.

In the data, Bin Laden repeatedly rejected suggestions from his operations chief Attiyah Abd al-Rahman over who should be in the attack team, the Wall Street Journal reports...


 
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