Clinton's national security adviser, Tony Lake said Clinton first learned of bin Laden "sometime in 1993," when he was thought of as a terror financier. U.S. Army Capt. James Francis Yacone, a black hawk squadron commander in Somalia, later testified that radio intercepts of enemy mortar crews firing at Americans were in Arabic, not Somali, suggesting the work of bin Laden's agents (who spoke Arabic), not warlord Farah Aideed's men (who did not). CIA and DIA reports also placed al Qaeda operatives in Somalia at the time.
Originally Posted By: the G-man
...according to CBS News terrorism analyst Michael Scheuer....but the fact of the matter is that ...the Clinton Administration had eight to ten chances [to kill Bin Laden] that they refused to try...
Scheuer, by the way, was also a member of the Clinton administration
