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"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine.
"Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places." August, 1996
Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge , but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal. You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew; the extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear.
He called Clinton a coward to his face and he shrugged. He really saw this guy "living in a cave" as a threat.

Gary Schroen, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, says the White House (Clinton's) required the CIA to attempt to capture bin Laden alive, rather than kill him.
Oh yeah, you "capture" a threat. Riiiiiiiight!

Al Qaeda absent from final Clinton report
The final policy paper on national security that President Clinton submitted to Congress — 45,000 words long — makes no mention of al Qaeda and refers to Osama bin Laden by name just four times.
The scarce references to bin Laden and his terror network undercut claims by former White House terrorism analyst Richard A. Clarke that the Clinton administration considered al Qaeda an "urgent" threat, while President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, "ignored" it.
The claim has been made before and discrecited then as well.

Clinton called him "perhaps the preeminent organizer and financier of international terrorism in the world today."
Doesn't sound like he called him a threat to me.

Losing bin Laden
Mr. Novak revealed a secret meeting discovered and reported in the book, by its author, Richard Miniter which took place in the Clinton White House after the bombing of the USS Cole.
The meeting in October, 2000, occurred twenty-six days before voters decided who would succeed Bill Clinton.
Snip...In fact, according to Miniter, Clinton passed up 11 other chances to kill Osama Bin Laden. Some would say Clinton’s failure to take out this deadly terrorist is his real legacy. Today, Bill Clinton is quick to disclose how he “obsessed” over the problem of Osama Bin Laden. But was his obsession, as he puts it, more about how to avoid possibly unpopular and dangerous foreign policy decisions?
Snip...Director Tenet, according to witness reports, wanted to conduct more investigation, even though Mr. Clarke thought there was sufficient evidence to blame Osama. Cohen was quoted as saying that the attack on our ship which nearly caused it to sink, and took the lives of 17 sailors, “was not sufficiently provocative.” Cohen now denies he said this, but one wonders what it would take to provoke him.
Bill Clinton said he didn't inhale either.

And if you want to know for sure that he's still a lying pile of manure then consider that Secretary Albright designated one new FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organizations) in 1999 (al Qa'ida) and another in 2000 (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan).
(The Process
The Secretary of State makes decisions concerning the designation and redesignation of FTO's following an exhaustive interagency review process in which all evidence of a group's activity, from both classified and open sources, is scrutinized. The State Department, working closely with the Justice and Treasury Departments and the intelligence community, prepares a detailed "administrative record" which documents the terrorist activity of the designated FTO. Seven days before publishing an FTO designation in the Federal Register, the Department of State provides classified notification to Congress.)
Such a great threat that bin Laden's group wasn't even added to the FTO list until 1999!