ABC News ^ | 05/13/2011 | Brian Ross
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 9:09:28 AM by safetysign
U.S. officials are analyzing one million pages of data from the trove found in Osama bin Laden's compound during the raid that killed him, and say they have learned more in the past ten days than in the past 10 years.
Among the things they've learned is that the al Qaeda leader wanted to find a way to kill President Obama.
Meanwhile, the first revenge attack for the bin Laden raid has killed 80 outside a military training center in Pakistan, and President Obama has acknowledged that threats against his own grandmother from another al Qaeda group are being closely monitored.
In the Kenyan village where she lives, the president's 88-year-old step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, shrugged off death threats against her from an al Qaeda affiliate in East Africa called al Shabaab.
"My life has not been affected in any way," Sarah Obama told ABC News. "It has not restricted my movement."
But President Obama seemed more concerned when asked directly about his grandmother by a Miami Spanish-language television station.
"There is no doubt that when it comes to the American people," he told WLTV, "that after having killed bin Laden there may be a desire on some al Qaeda members to exact revenge and that's something that we have to be vigilant about and we're monitoring all these situations."
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