The 9, 11 Commission Report: The Attack On The USS Cole

President Clinton was deeply concerned about Osama Bin Ladin. He and his national security advisor, Samuel Sandy Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Ladins reported location. In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Ladin and nothing about al Qaeda. He explained to us that this was deliberateintended to avoid enhancing Bin Ladins stature by giving him unnecessary publicity. His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons. As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdownsthe Y2K government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns. The 9, 11 Commission Report: From Threat To Threat: The Attack On The USS Cole