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    1) Intelligence reports indicate that since 1997, Osama Bin Laden has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the United States and told his followers to "bring the fighting to America." 2) After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington. 3) The FBI has approximately 70 ongoing investigations in the US related to Bin Laden and is investigating a call to the US Embassy in the UAE about Bin Laden supporters planning attacks in the US with explosives.

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    1) Intelligence reports indicate that since 1997, Osama Bin Laden has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the United States and told his followers to "bring the fighting to America." 2) After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington. 3) The FBI has approximately 70 ongoing investigations in the US related to Bin Laden and is investigating a call to the US Embassy in the UAE about Bin Laden supporters planning attacks in the US with explosives.

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    1) Intelligence reports indicate that since 1997, Osama Bin Laden has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the United States and told his followers to "bring the fighting to America." 2) After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington. 3) The FBI has approximately 70 ongoing investigations in the US related to Bin Laden and is investigating a call to the US Embassy in the UAE about Bin Laden supporters planning attacks in the US with explosives.

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    Declassified and Approved

    for Release, 10 April 2004

    Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

    Clandestine, foreIgn government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladln


    since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin
    implied inus television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his lollowers would
    follow the example 01 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youse! and "bring
    the lighting to America,"

    After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin


    told followers he wanted 10 retaliate in Washington, according to
    a service,

    An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative lold an' service


    althe same lime that Bin Ladin was planning 10 exploil the operative's
    access 10 the US to mount a terrorist strike.

    The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of


    Bin Ladln's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike In the
    US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI thaI he conceived the
    idea to att€,ck Los Angeles International Airpon himself, bul thilt,Si,n
    Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and h~lped facilitate ,the
    operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning tiis
    own US attack. '

    Ressam says Bin Ladln was aware of the Los Angeles operation.

    Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US
    Embassies In Kenya and Tanzania In 1998 demonstrate that he prepares
    operations years in advance and Is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin
    associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early
    as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were
    arrested and deported In 1997.

    AI-Qatida members-Including some who are US cnlzens-have resided


    in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a
    support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qa'ida members found guilty
    in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a
    senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

    A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York
    was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks,

    We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational


    threat reporting, such as that from a servlr;:e in
    1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the
    release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd ai-Rahman and other US-held
    extremists.

    conrinued

    For the President Only


    6 Auousl 2001 • Declassified and Approved
    for Release, 10 April 2004
    Declassified and Approved
    for Release, 10 April 2004

    Nevertheless, FBI information since Ihatlime indicales patterns of


    suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparallons lor
    hijackings or other types of at1acks. including recenl surveillance of
    laderal buildings in New York.

    The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations


    throughoullhe US thai it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the
    FBI are investigating a call 10 our Embassy in Ihe UAE in May saying
    Ihat a group 01 Bin Ladin supporters was in Ihe US planning attacks
    with explosives.

    For the President Only


    6 Augusl 2001 • Declassified and Approved
    for Release, 10 April 2004

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