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Report: Bin Laden’s Hit List Included Obama, Petraeus, And A Major U.S. Sporting Event

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ABC News Martha Raddatz is quoting unnamed U.S. officials who are claiming that Osama bin Laden had the desire to celebrate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 with another attack on the United States, and had a “hit list” which included Barack Obama, General David Petraeus and included plans for crashing a small airplane into a major U.S. sporting event causing mass casualties.

Writing for ABCNews.com, Raddatz reports:

The hit list was discovered in the “treasure trove” of information seized from Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound after the Navy SEAL raid that killed him in May. Officials say he was intent on an attack on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, though the plot was only in the “discussion phase.” He also remained obsessed with using aircraft to kill.

Officials tell ABC News that bin Laden wanted to fly a small plane into a sporting event to cause mass casualties.

“We have so many small airports, you could fly below radar,” said Brad Garrett, former FBI special agent and now an ABC News consultant. “That’s possibly doable.’

Raddatz continues to report that the main target on bin Laden’s hit list was Obama and that the al Qaeda leader was “trying to hatch a plan to kill President Obama by shooting down Air Force One or Marine One” during one of his trips abroad. Read the full report here or watch Raddatz report on GMA this morning, courtesy of ABC News.

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  • CAINtheBULL

    So what most Fox News viewers have listed. thanks.

  • Steve_27

    The possibility of flying any type of small airplane into a collage football game or any large open venue will always be a danger so I hope the authoritys are on top of it. That attack can only be prevented before the maniac is in the plane and in the air so we better be doing a good job in regards.

  • Steve_27

    The mag in that ak looks ridiculous, like it’s super imposed or something. Damn!

  • JR

    Who is suprised here? Of course he still wanted to kill us, kill our POTUS, the man in charge in Afghanistan or Iraq…and probably every uncovered woman or apostate on the planet. The man was a malignant narcissistic serial killer, who would not stop until he met his bullet. Talk about shooting in self-defense…

    But someone call Michael Moore and tell him that there was a terrorist threat. He’ll probably go ‘hunh…well, imagine that…” Notice how Obama hasn’t closed GITMO, nor ramped down our security, and in fact, INCREASED it? You don’t have to be a stereotypical neocon not to know that he took one look at his classified information and immediately shat kittens.

    Also don’t have to be psychic to have predicted this outcome. You do, however, have to know something about the mindset of those who feverishly believe in fundamentalist Islam. This has been going on since the 6th century, in varying degrees. Read the Koran and do some research as to what that really means. Once you grok their point, and stop thinking ethnocentrically, it all make sense. And then Osama’s hit list just becomes the details.

  • Dem4Ever

    Report: Bin Laden’s Hit List Included Obama, Petraeus, And A Major U.S. Sporting Event

    Lover’s spat…Oby pissed him off.

  • BR

    Bin Laden’s hit list included Obama? Great, now the liberals will be saying that Bin Laden was a “racist teabagger”!

    Don’t put it past them!

  • Steve_27

    BR said:
    Bin Laden’s hit list included Obama? Great, now the liberals will be saying that Bin Laden was a “racist teabagger”! Don’t put it past them!

    LOL!

  • timcajun

    BR says:
    Bin Laden’s hit list included Obama? Great, now the liberals will be saying that Bin Laden was a “racist teabagger”!

    Don’t put it past them!
    …………………………………………..
    I wouldn’t put it past a racist “teabagger” to say something,….”stupid”!

  • Colorado_Conservative

    BR said:
    Bin Laden’s hit list included Obama? Great, now the liberals will be saying that Bin Laden was a “racist teabagger”!

    Don’t put it past them!

    Both Osama and Obama are “racist teabaggers” because they were both wanting to kill each other!!

  • timcajun

    Colorado_Conservative says:
    Both Osama and Obama are “racist teabaggers” because they were both wanting to kill each other!!
    ………………………………………
    What happened to the patriot, moral love?

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