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| TIME: Bin Laden may be planning attacks on Washington, New York By the Agence France Presse December 15, 1998, Philippine Star WASHINGTON DC � Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden may be planning strikes on Washington or New York to avenge a US missile strike on his Afghan headquarters in August, TIME magazine reported Sunday. �We�ve hit his headquarters, now he hits ours,� the magazine quotes a State Department aide as saying. US Attorney General Janet Reno organized an exercise at FBI headquarters in Washington on Oct.14 to plan for a possible terror attack by Bin Laden, the weekly said. But US agencies are questioning whether they could have prevented the Aug. 7 twin bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that Bin Laden is suspected to have orchestrated. Some 224 people, including 12 Americans died in the atrocities. The United States responded by attacking suspected terrorist camps run by Bin Laden in Afghanistan��... In 1996, the CIA was planning to snatch Bin Laden from a foreign country and bring him to trial in the United States, but he avoided traveling to those countries. The investigation also revealed that intelligence officials discovered in 1993 that Bin Laden was shopping for nuclear weapons. But Bin Laden agents scouring former Soviet republics for enriched uranium and weapons components were offered unusable low-grade reactor fuel or radioactive garbage. |