Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden left millions of dollars in Sudan and wanted most of it to be used to fund jihad, a handwritten will released on Tuesday reported.

The late 1990s document was among a tranche of newly declassified letters seized by Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011 while,  they descended on Bin Laden\'s hideout in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad and killed him.

Dozens of documents, including one they said was bin Laden\'s will that deals with monies in Sudan were released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

According to the will of bin Laden, which is Written in Arabic on a single piece of lined paper,  he has about $US29 million ($40 million) in Sudan, and that much of it had come from his brother.

According to the ODNI\'s translation of the document, he wrote, \"I received $12 million from my brother Abu Bakir Muhammad Bin (Laden) on behalf of the Bin Laden Company for investment in Sudan.  I hope, for my brothers, sisters and maternal aunts, to obey my will and to spend all the money that I have left in Sudan for  jihad, for the sake of Allah.\"

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