Salon.com Books | "We stood by while this happened"

Salon.com Books | "We stood by while this happened"

Salon.com publishes an interview with Author Steve Coll, whose new book "Ghost Wars" discusses the trajectory of the CIA efforts in Afghanistan from the late 80's to 2001. The interview contains some tantalizing comments about the first WTC attack

At what point did they make the connection between Osama bin Laden and the 1993 World Trade Center attack?

The problem was that the FBI was in charge of the WTC case. They accumulated a lot of evidence about how the attackers had been supported and who they were connected to -- the first outlines of bin Laden's international organization and ambitions

that imply that more was known about BL connection to the first attack that is generally known.

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