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It seems to me that the "mistaken" bombing of the Chinese embassy infers they thought bin Laden was in that embassy. That implies they thought China was aiding bin Laden. Your thoughts?

WRIGHT: I think if they actually had a real moment of having bin Laden in their sights, but the truth is, on each of these occasions, when they had tribals who said they thought that he was there, one time when he was in the governor's house but he actually left, another time when the CIA had mistakenly given information that led to the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and then the best opportunity to get bin Laden arises right after that, and, you know, and Clinton -- and Tenet had a failure of nerve.

I remember the furor over the Chinese embassy bombing. These excuse at the time was that they had 'old' maps of the area.

I always suspected there was more to the story. It sounded too fishy, too contrived. Wright's implying that it somehow had something to do with OBL is the first I have heard of that theory.

Mohammad Atta in Belgrade in 2000. Maybe there was more going on in Belgrade than has been published.