拉登絕密信件公布曾計劃暗殺奧巴馬

Trove from al-Qaida leader’s compound declassified

中國日報網 2012-05-04 16:09

File photo of Osama bin Laden. The center released a group of 17 documents totaling 175 pages.

A selection from more than 6,000 pages of documents seized during the May 1, 2011, raid that killed Osama bin Laden was released on Thursday by West Point's Combating Terrorism Center (CTC), giving the public a rare glimpse of the al-Qaida leader's terror plans and his largely solitary life.

The center released a group of 17 documents totaling 175 pages, which had been uncovered by US forces in bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. Shortly before 9 am ET, the center posted on its website both the Arabic originals and versions translated and summarized in English.

As was previously reported, some of the documents show that bin Laden ordered the assassinations of President Barack Obama and US Gen. David Petraeus, but did not have the resources to carry out the killings.

"Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President Joe] Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there," bin Laden wrote in a letter to one of his top lieutenants. "Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war's path."

The earliest letter is dated September 2006 and the latest April 2011, the center said. Several al-Qaida leaders authored the internal communications.

Given that the electronic documents were "saved on thumb drives, memory cards or the hard drive of bin Laden's computer," the center noted, it's unclear whether any of these letters reached their intended destinations.

In another letter, bin Laden vows to avenge the war in Afghanistan, while assuring one of his deputies that America does not have the financial resources to continue it.

In another, bin Laden compares two of al-Qaida's enemies: Arab leaders and America, concluding that the US should remain its most important target.

A January 2011 letter from Gadahn to an unknown recipient discusses al-Qaida's media strategy ahead of the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and explains where the group might focus its press efforts.

"From the professional point of view, they are all on one level—except [Fox News] channel which falls into the abyss as you know, and lacks neutrality too," Gadahn wrote. "I used to think that MSNBC channel may be good and neutral a bit, but it has lately fired two of the most famous journalists—Keith Olberman and Octavia Nasser the Lebanese—because they released some statements that were open for argument."

He added: "As for Fox News, let her die in her anger."

(Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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本周四，美國西點軍校反恐中心公布了去年5月1日擊斃拉登的行動中繳獲的部分資料，全部文件資料超過六千頁。公眾也因此極為難得地了解到了這位基地組織頭目的恐怖行動計劃，以及他的孤寂生活。

該中心公布了17份文件，共計175頁，這些文件是美軍在拉登位于阿伯塔巴德的住所發現的。當地時間剛不到上午九點，該中心就在其網站上公布了阿拉伯語的原件和英文翻譯概括版。

和之前報道的一樣，其中一些文件提到拉登下令暗殺美國總統奧巴馬和戴維?彼得雷烏斯將軍，但沒有寫明如何開展行動。

拉登在寫給他的一名最高級助理的信中說：“奧巴馬是無信仰之首，把他殺掉會讓美國副總統拜登接管剩下的任期，這是美國的傳統。拜登對當總統毫無準備，這會使美國走向危機。至于彼得雷烏斯，他是最后這一年戰爭的關鍵人物，殺掉他會改變戰爭走向。”

反恐中心說，最早的一封信寫于2006年9月，最后一封寫在2011年4月。數名基地組織頭目都通過這些內部信件交流。

反恐中心提到，由于這些電子文件都“保存在指狀儲存器、存儲卡、以及拉登電腦的硬盤里，因此不清楚這些信件是否已經順利發送到目的地。

在一封信中，拉登誓言要對阿富汗戰爭展開報復行動，并向他的一名副手保證美國沒有財力繼續這場戰爭。

在另一封信中，拉登把他的兩個敵人：阿拉伯領導人和美國進行了比較，最終認為美國應該還是基地組織最重要的目標。