Bin Laden files show other attacks were planned

The US has released a trove of documents seized when special forces stormed Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan in 2011 that include references to unfulfilled plots such as an attack on the US embassy in Moscow.

Among the documents captured at the hideout in Abbottabad, where the man behind the September 11 attacks was killed, are appraisals of terrorist efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan, an eclectic list of books owned by the terrorist leader and an application form to join his group, al-Qaeda.

The trove of captured material, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, underscored bin Laden’s preoccupation with attacking US and Western targets.