Documents Reveal Bin Laden Considered Chartering Planes to Recreate 9/11-Style Attacks, Derail Trains, and Target International Gas Tankers

Deceased Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden made plans to charter private planes for new 9/11-style attacks, derail trains and target international gas tankers, according to newly translated documents taken from the U.S. special operations raid on his compound in Pakistan in 2011.

CBS News’ 60 Minutes program on Sunday first reported on the newly translated documents, which were obtained more than a decade earlier by the U.S. Navy SEALs who raided Bin Laden’s Pakistan compound and fatally shot the Al Qaeda leader.

In 2017, the CIA released troves of documents recovered during the raid on Bin Laden’s compound, but provided little to no translation for the documents. Islamic scholar Nelly Lahoud began the process of translating thousands of the documents after their release and provided 60 Minutes with a new look at the Al Qaeda leader’s terrorist plans after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.