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Bin Laden targeted President Obama, Gen. Petraeus

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    New documents from Pakistan compound show proposed plots

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Fox News alert now -- Fox News confirming US officials are now reviewing documents.

That reveal -- bin Laden targeted President Obama and General David Petraeus.

Those documents collected by the US seal team dispatched to take out bin Laden at his secret compound in Pakistan back in early may.

We first learned of these documents last summer but today is the first time they have been shown to a reporter.

Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge joins us now on the questions that is raising Katherine.

Well -- thank you what's worth noting here is the timing earlier this week.

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim released a documentary about the Obama administration which highlights the strike in May last year that took out Osama bin Laden.

Now today Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is reporting on intelligence gather from the compound in -- bottom by Pakistan.

And Ignatius is emphasizing that the bin Laden plots targeted General David Petraeus and President Obama these plots.

Were first reported in July last year and according to US officials.

These plots were not advanced and never seen as anything more than wishful thinking.

By bin Laden quote.

The reason for concentrating on them bin Laden explained to his top lieutenant according to Ignatius.

Is that Obama is ahead infidelity killing him automatically will make vice president Joseph Biden.

Take over the presidency Biden is totally -- prepared for that post which will lead the US into a crisis.

And just this week during the Rose Garden news conference with the British prime minister David Cameron.

The president once again mentioned the take down in Pakistan.

There's a reason why Osama bin Laden.

And his lieutenants are not in a position to be able to execute.

Plots against the United States or Great Britain.

A senior administration official told fox this afternoon.

That the Obama team is working to declassify these documents that were gathered in that Pakistan compound of Osama bin Laden.

And they're trying to do that as quickly as possible but of course.

The key question here.

Is going to be the timing of that release and whether it bumps up against the election in November -- and Catherine -- thanks Iraq.

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