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03/16/2004: "bin Laden Missed again"

Drudge links to an MS-NBC report about failure of President Clinton to pursue Osama bin Laden.

In 1993, the first World Trade Center bombing killed six people.
In 1998, the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa killed 224.
Both were the work of al-Qaida and bin Laden, who in 1998 declared holy war on America, making him arguably the most wanted man in the world.
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In the fall of 2000, in Afghanistan, unmanned, unarmed spy planes called Predators ... captured [images of] ... a tall figure in flowing white robes. Many intelligence analysts believed then and now it is bin Laden.

Too bad we couldn't have better timed sex scandals; if we could have induced President Clinton to change the subject from his personal peccadilloes at that precise moment, 9/11 might have been avoided.