CIA releases declassified documents on bin Laden and al-Qaeda
The agency has made public dozens of documents related to Osama bin Laden and the terrorist organization, including a 1998 briefing to then-President Clinton.
The CIA has declassified and released dozens of documents concerning Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Among the materials is a 1998 briefing that warned then-President Bill Clinton that bin Laden's "preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington," according to the declassified record.
The release adds to publicly available intelligence records on the terrorist network and its leadership, which have been gradually made accessible through declassification processes over the past two decades.
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