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The Bin Laden Files, Part 2/3: Take The Shot

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Bin Laden's Plan to Assassinate People

Bin Laden was forging ahead with plans for further attacks, and these plans were growing ever more ambitious. In the spring of 1999, Bin Laden summoned one of his followers, Sheikh Mohammed, Tikandahar. He proposes that al-Qaeda members should fly small planes packed with explosives into the World Trade Center. Why use an axe when you can use a bulldozer? he says.

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