
The newly released CIA documents sketch a slow-motion nightmare, unfolding in plain sight. From 1998 onward, intelligence officers traced Osama bin Laden’s money, front companies, and deepening ties to the Taliban and the Afghan drug trade. Memos flagged his attempts to acquire chemical, biological, even nuclear materials. Others recorded his public calls for Muslims to attack American civilians until the U.S. withdrew from Saudi Arabia and “Palestine,” a warning of both intent and ideology.
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