Bin Laden claimed $29M fortune, wanted it used ‘on jihad’
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Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden in Kabul in 1997
In his handwritten will, Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden claimed he had about $29 million in personal wealth — the bulk of which he wanted to be used “on jihad, for the sake of Allah.”
The will was released Tuesday in a batch of more than 100 documents seized in a May 2011 raid that killed bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The Al Qaeda leader planned to divide his fortune among his relatives, but wanted most of it spent to conduct the work of the Islamic extremist terror network behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
The threat of sudden death was on his mind years before the fatal raid in Pakistan. read more at Fox
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