The United States has released what appears
to be a hand-written will of the late al-Qaeda
leader Osama Bin Laden.
In it, Bin Laden asked that the majority of his
$29m fortune be spent on continuing al-
Qaeda's operations.
The letter was part of a cache of 113
documents taken in the 2011 US Special Forces
raid that killed Bin Laden in Pakistan.
The documents were translated from Arabic
and declassified by US intelligence agencies.
They were part of a second tranche of
documents seized in the operation and have
been declassified since May 2015 . A large
number have yet to be released.
One document, a hand-written note that US
intelligence officials believe the late al-Qaeda
leader composed in the late 1990s, laid out
how he wanted to distribute about $29m he
had in Sudan.
One percent of the $29mn, Bin Laden wrote,
should go to Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, a senior al-
Qaeda member who used the nom de guerre
Abu Hafs al-Mauritani.
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