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Osama Bin Laden's Will: $29 Million That Should Be Spent On 'Jihad'
Always dedicated to murder and mayhem. Good riddance.
March 1, 2016
Osama bin Laden wrote in a will that he had a fortune of around $29 million and that he wanted it spent "on jihad." The will was among more
than 100 bin Laden documents released Tuesday by the U.S. government.
A handwritten will by Osama bin Laden said he had a fortune of "around 29 million dollars" and that most of it should be spent "on jihad," according to documents released by the U.S. government on Tuesday. The will was among more than 100 documents made public by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The materials were captured when Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida leader in a May 1, 2011, raid on at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. This is the second batch of documents that have been made public. The first was released last May. Many more documents were seized, but have not yet been declassified and released.
The will was undated, but bin Laden said the money was in Sudan, where he lived for several years in the 1990s. He left Sudan for Afghanistan in 1996, just before the Taliban seized control of the country and welcomed him. "I hope, for my brothers, sisters, and maternal aunts, to obey my will and to spend all the money that I have left in Sudan on jihad, for the sake of Allah," bin Laden wrote. It was not clear how much money he had at the time of his death or what happened to it.
Here are some of the highlights from the documents:
— He urged his group to gradually step up pressure on Iran, which kept some al-Qaida figures under house arrest after the 2001 attacks in the U.S., while allowing others to move around freely. His family members were also held in Iran. In one letter, he wrote: "We asked several times that they be let go so that they could go to Pakistan. Tehran did not respond to that, so maybe you could attempt to work on releasing them to the Waziristan area of Pakistan, where we can make sure they are all right there with these tribes," bin Laden wrote.
— He warned one of his wives, Khairah, that a bugging or tracking device could be installed in her mouth when she was receiving a dental filling in Iran, where she was under house arrest. "Please let me know in detail about anything that bothers you about any hospital in Iran or any suspicions that any of the brothers may have about chips planted in any way," he wrote. "One of the ways, the syringe can be of the same size, but its head is slightly bigger than normal, that way, as I previously mentioned to you, they can insert a small chip in it to implant under the skin. The size of the chip is about the length of a grain of wheat and the width of a fine piece of vermicelli."
Always dedicated to murder and mayhem. Good riddance.
