Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden left a personal fortune of around $29m (\u00a321m) after his death in a raid in 2011, his will shows.<\/p>\n
The will is among a trove of documents released to US media. It was seized in the US assault in Abbotabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Bin Laden urged his family to “obey my will” and to spend his inheritance on “jihad, for the sake of Allah”.<\/p>\n
He referred to the money as being in Sudan, but it is not clear whether it was cash or assets.<\/p>\n
Bin Laden lived in Sudan for five years in the 1990s as a guest of the Sudanese government.<\/p>\n
It is not known whether any of the money made its way to his heirs.<\/p>\n
Other letters attributed to Bin Laden and released on Tuesday show that he:<\/p>\n
*Urged Americans to fight “catastrophic” climate change to “save humanity”<\/p>\n
*Feared that a dentist had planted a tracking device in his wife’s tooth<\/p>\n
*Planned a major media campaign to mark the 10th anniversary of the 11 September attacks in the US<\/p>\n
He also gave his assessment of the progress of the West’s “war on terror” and the US military campaign in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
“They thought that the war would be easy and that they would accomplish their objectives in a few days or a few weeks,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
“We need to be patient a bit longer. With patience, there is victory!”<\/p>\n
Bin Laden was killed by US special forces in May 2011 in a raid on his compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n
The group has since been led by al-Qaeda’s former second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.<\/p>\n
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