New York: Documents found at Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan home suggest he was planning new attacks on the US, including on the 9/11 anniversary, US reports say. One plan aimed to target a US rail route, the reports said, although no imminent threat was detected.
Officials are examining computers, DVDs and documents seized from the Abbottabad home where they believe Bin Laden hid for up to six years.
President Obama is due to meet some of the troops involved in the operation.
He will hold private meetings on Friday at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, with at least some of the Navy Seals who took part in the raid.
On Thursday, the president visited the site of the attack of September 11, 2001 in New York, laying a wreath in memory of the nearly 3,000 victims who died at Ground Zero, and speaking to relatives at the site.
He told victims’ families that justice had now been done, but that America “would never forget”.
Information about the apparent plans unearthed in Pakistan was contained in a joint FBI and Homeland Security bulletin.
The bulletin, circulated to law enforcement officials, said the idea to tamper with an unspecified US railway track was found in handwritten notes taken from Bin Laden’s compound.
According to the bulletin al-Qaeda operatives planned to derail a train so that it would plunge into a valley, or from a bridge.
“While it is clear that there was some level of planning for this type of operation in February 2010, we have no recent information to indicate an active ongoing plot to target transportation and no information on possible locations or specific targets,” the warning read.
One intelligence official said the notes revealed the ambition to hit the US with large-scale attacks in major cities and on key dates such as anniversaries and holidays.
One unnamed US official told media the documents revealed that Bin Laden was not merely a figurehead for al-Qaeda sympathisers worldwide.
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