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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I know a lot of babies are named that, but I didn't know they named a mountain after him.

• Clinton probably came within hours of killing bin Laden on Aug. 20, 1998, when the US attacked training camps in Afghanistan near Khost, where the CIA believed terrorist leaders were gathering to plan further attacks in the wake of earlier bombings of US embassies. The cruise missile strikes, launched from Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea, mostly hit their targets but missed bin Laden, most likely by just a few hours (9/11 Report, p. 117). . . .
  
  Clinton's Republican Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, described Clinton as vigorously trying to get bin Laden. Cohen told the 9/11 Commission that "President Clinton and his entire national security team devoted an extraordinary amount of time and effort to coping with the threat."

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