The documents also revealed that the Al-Qaeda leaders were increasingly anxious about spies in their group, drones patrolling the skies and secret devices tracking their movements.
Osama bin Laden was planning more attacks on the US just days before his death in order to mark the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, it has emerged.
The United States, recently, made public about 115 documents that were found in possession of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, during the U.S. operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan that led to the execution of the notorious terrorist.
Although Bin Laden referred to the money as being in Sudan, it is not clear whether it was in the form of cash or assets, or whether any of it made its way to his heirs.
The wife had recently visited a dentist in Iran, and bin Laden asks her if she is sure the physician didn’t insert a tiny tracking device into a filling.
In the letter, bin Laden recommended that al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news network, be told that al Qaeda was “ready to cooperate with them in the area of coverage for the tenth anniversary of September 11”.
Another one per cent of the sum should be given to a second associate, engineer Abu Ibrahim al-Iraqi Sa’ad, for helping set up bin Laden’s first company in Sudan, the document says.
Relations between bin Laden and the two brothers deteriorated to the point that they entered into a written agreement that they would separate sometime in 2011 or early 2012 and that bin Laden and his family would move away from the compound in Abbottabad.
The documents were released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Several documents show a long-running disagreement with al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq, which later became the so-called Islamic State (IS).
The fear of being tracked is a recurring theme in Bin Laden’s writing.
In another letter, addressed to The Islamic Community in general, Bin Laden offered an upbeat assessment of progress in his holy war and of U.S. failings in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden agreed the American economy faces some “significant and unsafe challenges”, but was not convinced the prospect of a weakening dollar was a sign of economic collapse in the U.S.
There was no immediate explanation of what might have been done with the $29 million that bin Laden claimed to have in Sudan, where he lived for five years as an official guest until he was asked to leave in May 1996 by the Islamic fundamentalist government then in power, under pressure from the United States. Bin Laden was the scion of a wealthy Saudi family but there is no indication he had access to that fortune by the time of the raid that killed him. It cited the scheduled pullout of Canadian troops and Obama’s decision to eventually pull USA troops out as well.
In the booklet, bin Laden wrote, “India has embarked on many important initiatives, except that it is preparing for a decisive grand battle”. It was seized in the USA assault in Abbotabad, Pakistan.