Bin Laden focused on 'attacking West to the end'

Osama Bin Laden was hell bent on a spectacular attack on the US until the very end of his life, newly declassified documents have revealed.

Top Secret documents released by the US government shed new light on how the Al-Qaeda leader managed his security during his years on the run and how he was determined to strike back at the West until the final moment, French news agency AFP reports.

"The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people and their representatives," Bin Laden wrote in one of the newly revealed documents.

They also reveal that Bin Laden was plagued by paranoia over Western spying and had a fixation with the terror group's media image.