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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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The Taliban - A New Phenomenon for Bin Laden

Gina Bennett was a CIA counter-terrorism analyst for over 30 years. She wrote the first intelligence memo warning of the potential dangers of Afghan Arab veterans like Bin Laden back in 93. By 1993, Islamist militants had set off a truck bomb at the World Trade Center in New York City. The plan failed to topple the buildings, but killed six people and injured over a thousand more.

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