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CIA drops dozens of declassified documents on bin Laden and al-Qaeda
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 into a US city’.
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A CIA briefer sent a memo to President Clinton stating that Osama bin Laden’s “preferred option” was to attack the United States on its own soil in Washington, and warned that al Qaeda might attempt to fly an explosive‑packed airplane into a U.S. city.
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