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In August of 1998, the mysterious Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden was declared Washington's most-wanted fugitive.
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In May of 1996, under pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia, the Sudanese government asked bin Laden to leave, and he returned to Afghanistan permanently, accompanied by two military-transport planes carrying some of his wealth, more than a hundred of his Afghan Arab fighters, and his four wives.
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That the Clinton administration wasn't aware of Al Qaeda until 1999 is just semantics. They were aware of the key players, and the potential danger that they represented, and they did next to nothing.
More to the point, Sudan offered the Clinton administration Osama bin laden. Three times. The Clinton administration declined. Three times.