Osama bin Laden Was Overwhelmed With 'Regrets, Disappointments, Frustrations' In His Last Days'

What did Osama bin Laden go through in his last days? A petty collection of 'regrets, disappointments and frustrations, according to hindustantimes.

The report of the Abbottabad Commission slams Pakistan's political and military establishment for "failing to realise that the world's most wanted man was living in a town barely 30 miles from the capital," and just near the nation's "officer training academy."

"Over a period of time, an effective intelligence agency should have been able to contact, infiltrate or co-opt [Osama bin Laden's support network], and to develop a whole case load of information. Apparently, this was not the case," it concluded.

He had been living in Abbottabad with his three wives for more than six years.

Documents gathered from his Pakistani compound after US Navy Seals entered his building and shot him showed his long complaints about working with Arabs, Uzbeks, Turks, "Russians of all kinds," Germans and others. Many of the documents were released on Wednesday by the Obama government, according to npr. They showed him to be a leader isolated from all, disappointed by their failures, complaints and regretting the separation from the family. After al Qaeda was driven out of Afghanistan by US forces, he just went into hiding.

"Unfortunately, there is so much chaos on the ground," he wrote. "In general we suffer from unjustified divisions and alliances, which I call the 'fake commandants."

His final guidelines to his men were interesting. He asked them to concentrate on fighting America, rather than each other. He also asked one of his wives to remain with him in paradise, even after she remarried after he died.

The documents disclosed the usual message---" In the name of God, find a way to kill Americans. Kill Europeans. Kill Jews."

"Uproot the obnoxious tree by concentrating on its American trunk," bin Laden writes in a letter urging al Qaeda affiliates in North Africa to not be distracted by fighting local security forces and to avoid Muslim infighting, which worried bin Laden, apart from the American drone strikes against his lieutenants.

"The problem of the spying war and spying aircrafts benefited the enemy greatly and led to the killing of many jihadi cadres, leaders, and others," bin Laden wrote in an undated letter. "This is something that is concerning us and exhausting us."

There were also 'freelancers' who were not upto the mark. "They just refuse to be ordered and refuse to listen, obey, or stay where they were placed and insist on being the head," he wrote. "There are many examples of this, and if you add to them our visible mistakes, shortcomings, and weakness, you get the ingredients for divisions."

He told one of his wives: "you are the apple of my eye, and the most precious thing that I have in this world." Bin Laden says he has no objection to her remarrying after his death, "but I really want for you to be my wife in paradise" and reminds her that a wife who has married twice "is given a choice on Judgment Day."

All the documents had been recovered in May 2011 from bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and were released online. All the information was released to the public after government agencies reviewed them, as required by a 2014 law.