>Bin Laden: Don’t bother with Biden
Notes found in terrorist compound suggest al-Qaida leader thought little of the office of the vice presidency
On a list of high-ranking American targets assembled by Osama bin Laden while he was in hiding, Vice President Joe Biden did not figure very high. In fact, he didn’t figure at all; apparently, the al-Qaida leader considered Biden insufficiently powerful to be worthy of assassination.
According to ProPublica:
Bin Laden “talks about targeting priorities,” the counterterror official said. “He says the president is of course the top target if you could get a shot at him. Also the military chiefs like the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the defense secretary, top military people. There is a note indicating that the vice president is not an important target because that position has less weight.”
http://www.salon.com/news/osama_bin_laden/?story=/news/feature/2011/05/13/bin_laden_joe_biden
