Whenever there was a chance to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, the Clinton administration chose not to do it. We had an operation that was planned to kidnap bin Laden within Afghanistan. The plan was supposed to unfold just days before Al Qaeda bombed the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It was a plan that required getting him out of the country and then taking him to another country. And it was approved. And then it was at a last minute, it was unapproved. (12:50–12:57)
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Asserts that a plan to capture bin Laden was scheduled before the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
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