Are you sure about the date? That puts this into Clinton's regime.
Yes, but bin Laden was doing this with the complicity of the father of the Governor of Texas, since his father and he were buddies going all the back to when his father was head of the CIA for about a year in the 1970s. HE was just preparing for when the Texas oilmen would be in office and he would stage these hijackings. This would cause the U.S. to go to war and jack up poil prices, and they would rake in the profits.
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