Kammala wannan jumla: Ta'addanci ya zama muhimmiyar matsalar tsaro ta kasa a lokacin gwamnatin Clinton. A cikin shekarun da suka gabata na Soviet-Afghan War, Osama bin Laden ya shirya al-Qaeda, kungiyar Sunni mai gwagwarmaya. Shugabannin al-Qaeda sun raina dabi'un Yammacin Turai, kuma sun fusata musamman da kasancewar sojojin Amurka a Saudi Arabiya. Al-Qaeda ya girma a cikin shekarun 1990 kuma ya shiga cikin ta'addanci a Gabas ta Tsakiya da kuma sauran wurare. Kungiyar ta dauki alhakin kai harin bam a Cibiyar Ciniki ta Duniya a shekarar 1993,
hare-haren bama-bamai na ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka guda biyu a Gabashin Afirka, da kuma harin bam na jirgin Amurka a tashar jiragen ruwa a Yemen. A matsayin ramuwar gayya, Clinton ta ba da umarnin kai harin bam kan cibiyoyin al-Qaeda a Afghanistan da Sudan. Hukumar Leken Asiri ta Tsakiya da sojoji sun bi sahun bin Laden a kokarin kama shi ko kashe shi, amma Bin Laden ya kauce wa kama shi a cikin tsaunukan Afghanistan.