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CIA Reveals Clinton Administration Was Warned in 1998 of Potential Bin Laden Plane Attack

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Newly released documents show US intelligence repeatedly warned of al-Qaeda threats before 9/11, including a scenario involving a plane “loaded with explosives” being flown into an American city.
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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Sung-min = On the 11th (local time), the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [investigated] Al-Qaeda, which committed the attacks, and its...

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Those reports show that the US intelligence service warned the White House as early as 1998 that the Al Qaeda terrorist network "could direct a plane loaded with explosives to an American city", reports CNN. In a September 1998 report sent to the White House when Bill Clinton was President of the United States, a CIA analyst warned of a possible Al-Qaeda attack on an American city. The document was created almost three years before

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CIA published 71 declassified documents about Al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, at 25 years from September 11. 1998 reports warned of including the risk of hijacking an aircraft and an air attack on an American city. CIA opens one of the most sensitive chapters of recent history of the United States. At [...]

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Friday, September 11, 2026.
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