WASHINGTON — If President Barack Obama or his predecessor thought fighting a war with coalition partners was hard, they might consider Osama bin Laden’s frustrations.

Among documents gathered from his compound in Pakistan after U.S. Navy SEALs stormed the building and shot him to death is a lengthy complaint by the al-Qaida leader about working with Arabs, Uzbeks, Turks, “Russians of all kinds,” Germans and others in his global jihad.

“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.”’

Broadly, the dozens of documents released Wednesday by the Obama administration portray bin Laden as a leader cut off from his underlings, disappointed by their failures, beset by their complaints and regretting years of separation from much of his family. He went into hiding after al-Qaida was chased out of Afghanistan by U.S. forces after the 9-11 attacks.

Focus your fighting on America, not each other, the al-Qaida chief exhorts his followers. In a videotaped will, he urges one of his wives, should she remarry after his death, to still choose to live beside him in paradise.

Despite some surprising quirks in the collection, the overall message of the 103 letters, videos and reports made public hews to the terror group’s familiar mission: 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-Qaida affiliates in North Africa to not be distracted by fighting local security forces and to avoid Muslim infighting.

However, the infighting clearly annoyed bin Laden, as did the success of American drone strikes against many of 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.”

He also complained about freelancers and hotheads in al-Qaida.

“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.”

The document collection is sprinkled with telling tidbits. One says that the homemade bombs that Americans call improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are “anti-crusader devices,” or ACDs.

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the documents, released as online images, were among a collection of books, U.S. think tank reports and other materials recovered in the May 2011 raid that killed bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.