United States intelligence officials are claiming that the slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden left an amount of $29 million as inheritance for the operations of his organization.
Osama bin Laden was the co-founder and leader of Al-Qaeda since 1989, until his death on May 2, 2011. President Barack Obama claimed US special forces killed bin Laden in his fortified Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.
Five years after bin Laden’s death, the US has released what appears to be a handwritten document (will) of the late Al-Qaeda leader.
Al Jazeera reports that bin Laden’s will was part of 113 documents taken from his room when he was killed by US special forces in 2011. All the documents are said to have been translated from Arabic and declassified by US intelligence agencies. The documents were declassified in May 2015, with many of these letters are yet to be released to the public.
The letter (will) bin Laden wrote, dictates how his fortune, which US intelligence officials claim is $29 million, be shared. In the will, bin Laden made a passionate appeal to his possible successor that the majority of his $29m fortune be spent on continuing Al-Qaeda’s operations. The money is believed to be in Sudan.
US intelligence officials said they believed bin Laden wrote the letter in the 1990s. According to the letter, one percent of the money should go to Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, a senior al-Qaeda member who is also known as Abu Hafs al-Mauritani. Osama bin Laden lived in Sudan for five years as an official guest of the country. However, he was expelled from the country in May 1996 by the Sudanese government as a result of pressure from the then Clinton administration.
Again, another one percent of the money was directed to be given to a second associate, Abu Ibrahim al-Iraqi Sa’ad, an engineer by profession. Ibrahim helped bin Laden set up his first company, Wadi al-Aqiq Co in Sudan, and he became one of the right-hand men of bin Laden’s.
Apart from these two personalities who are entitled to two percent of the inheritance, bin Laden urged his close relatives to use the balance of the money to support al-Qaeda’s activities. He also urged his father to take care of his children, fearing their assassinations.
“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. My precious father: I entrust you well for my wife and children, and that you will always ask about them and follow up on their whereabouts and help them in their marriages and needs,” he wrote.
Osama bin Laden also asked his family to pray for him, in order for Allah to be pleased with him in an event of his death. He asked for forgiveness from his family, saying “if I have done what you did not like, forgive me. If I am to be killed, pray for me a lot and give continuous charities in my name, as I will be in great need for support to reach the permanent home.”
Osama bin Laden also warned that conflict with regimes in the Middle East would distract fighters of Al-Qaeda from focusing the fight on what he considered was the real enemy of the Islamic World – the United States.
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