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With the first Trade Tower bombing in 1993 the cat was out of the bag on Bin Ladin, Al Qaida, and the Sudan as the home of international terrorism. This was followed by the Somalia debacle in which Al Qaida and OBL played a major role. Then there was the AQ and OBL activity in Yemen, Eritrea, Chechnya and Bosnia in 1994. Then there was the failed attempted assasination of Egypt's Mubarak in Ethiopia in 1995, a AQ caper. Then there was the Khobar towers bombing in 1996 and the OBL "Manifesto" declaring war on the USA. What the Hell else was needed?