Osama bin Laden wrote a letter to jihadists in Afghanistan during the Barack Obama administration urging them to target the then-President but not Joe Biden, explaining it would be a boon to al-Qaeda if the incompetent Vice President took over the White House. Yes, seriously.
The letter, which is under discussion again after another of bin Laden’s old letters attacking America and “the Jews” went viral on the Chinese Communist Party-linked TikTok app, instructed jihadists to try and shoot down aircraft carrying Obama and General David Petraeus – but warned “[t]hey are not to target visits by U.S. Vice President Biden”.
“The reason for concentrating on [Obama] is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there,” bin Laden explained.
“Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis,” he added.
The Saudi sheikh arrived at this assessment despite the fact that Biden, now 80, was significantly less geriatric during the Obama administration.
It is notable that, once he did take over the White House in 2021, Biden oversaw a disaster in Afghanistan almost immediately, with the Taliban taking over the entire country – including territory held by the Northern Alliance prior to the U.S. invasion in 2001.
