Clinton knew of bin Laden's 'murderous intent' in '96
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secret documentsA public-interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption announced recently it has obtained newly declassified information from the State Department regarding the threat Osama bin Laden posed in 1996.
Judicial Watch says the State Department had previously redacted some information from documents released to the public-interest group in August 2005. But spokesman Chris Farrell says following an appeal to the Department of State Appeals Review Panel, the new information was released this month.
Farrell says the new data revealed some important details about what President Bill Clinton was told about the terrorist mastermind during a State Department briefing in July 1996.
Terrorist with hostage"For example, one reference is that bin Laden had planned to sponsor a suicide car bombing campaign against Americans and U.S. interests [and] businesses in the U.K...as a way of punishing England for cooperating with the United States against terror and for forbidding Osama bin Laden from returning to the United Kingdom because he had previously visited there," Farrell explains.
"This is additional new information that confirms Clinton's knowledge of Osama bin Laden's threat where nothing was done," he notes.
Judicial Watch believes that as a result of this inaction, not only did the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, come to pass, but so did massive suicide bombings in London's Underground in 2005.
Clinton knew of bin Laden's 'murderous intent' in '96
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