Washington - "Jerusalem" dot com - Saeed Erekat - The American researcher, Nelly Lahoud, who worked for years on reviewing and translating documents obtained by the United States, during the raid that killed the former al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, in 2011, revealed that he was planning another target. Greater than just killing Americans in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Lahoud revealed the contents of these documents on the famous "Sixty Minutes" program on CBS on Sunday.

The US Special Forces of the US Navy killed bin Laden in his residential compound in Abbottabad on the first of May 2011 and obtained during the operation thousands of documents containing letters and personal notes.

In 2017, the CIA declassified most of these messages, but they were left without context and unorganized.

During the past years, the Islamic writer and researcher, Nelly Lahoud, who studied at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, spent several years researching and examining these letters carefully.

CBS website said. In 2012, the CIA declassified the first 17 documents, and Lahoud was asked to analyze those documents.

Over the past five years I have read, analyzed and translated the remaining declassified documents in consultation with US generals and Special Forces commanders.

In her new book, The Bin Laden Papers, the author explained in detail her analysis of the nearly 6,000 pages of these documents that she reviewed.

The researcher explains in two interviews on the "60 Minutes" program that immediately after the attacks of September 11, al-Qaeda did not expect the United States to wage a major war against it, only expecting limited air strikes.

New translations of Osama bin Laden's personal documents show that the purpose of 9/11 was not only to kill Americans, but to incite protests within the United States.

"It was a huge miscalculation," Lahoud said.

A Gallup poll conducted in October 2001 showed that 88 percent of Americans supported military intervention in Afghanistan.

She explains that bin Laden "believed that the American people would take to the streets to repeat the protests against the Vietnam War and would pressure their government to withdraw from Muslim-majority countries."

In a letter from 2010, bin Laden says that direct pressure can be exerted on "the White House, Congress and the Pentagon ... when al Qaeda directly affects the American people."

In the years after 9/11, bin Laden had plans for other attacks aimed at fomenting "popular anger and domestic opposition" on American soil.

The researcher explains in her book that in a speech to the organization in 2005, bin Laden said that priority should be given to attacks in America.

With the difficulty of carrying out good attacks with aircraft, he offered to target American railways by "removing 12 meters of track so that a train could derail and explain the simple set of tools they could use."

But he failed to implement the plan after the organization became "helpless," according to a message from an al-Qaeda field commander.

The message sent by the leader, Bin Laden, says: "We Muslims have been desecrated, our state has been torn apart, our lands have been occupied, and our wealth has been plundered."

Osama bin Laden planned another terrorist attack in 2010 against crude oil tankers and key shipping routes throughout the Middle East and Africa.

But it seems that his final plan of attack was halted by the "Arab Spring" protests, which were confusing and disturbing to him.