Declassified by the US government a few months ago in a New York court case against a Pakistani named Abid Naseer, details of these emails obtained from the Abbottabad hideout of Osama was reported by The Washington Post yesterday.
From his hideout in Pakistan's garrison town of Abbottabad, Osama was directing a terrorist "great game" to hit the US again and making strategies to achieve his goal.
Even as Osama was seeking to capitalise on the Arab upheaval, he was considering local truces with Pakistan and among feuding factions in North Africa, the paper said.
A few weeks before his death, Osama said what was needed was another "large operation inside America (that) affects the security and nerves of 300 million Americans."
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"Al-Qaeda's main leadership had been rocked by America's drone war, but the group still had big ambitions, even at a time when US officials said it was buckling," the report said.
Osama of these documents is ruminating about big strategic ideas but also micromanaging personnel decisions and counter- espionage tactics, the report said, citing the documents.
In one passage he admonishes his deputy Atiyah Abd al-Rahman to pay more attention to climate change that might affect Somalia, a key recruiting area; in another, he proposes sending al-Qaeda recruits to universities to master advanced technologies that could benefit the group, it said.