CIA releases dozens of declassified documents on bin Laden prior to 9/11
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CIA releases dozens of declassified documents on bin Laden prior to 9/11 A briefer wrote to then-President Clinton that bin Laden’s ‘preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington’, and that al-Qaeda ‘may fly an explosive-packed airplane…
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CIA releases dozens of declassified documents on bin Laden prior to 9/11 A briefer wrote to then-President Clinton that bin Laden’s ‘preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington’, and that al-Qaeda ‘may fly an explosive-packed airplane…
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