Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1991, Bin Laden ya koma kasarsa ta Saudiyya don nuna rashin amincewa da kasancewar dakarun, da kuma Operation Desert Storm. An kore shi daga kasar. A shekara ta 1996 CIA ta kirkiro wata kungiya don farautar Bin Laden. Sun yi musayar bayanai da Sudan har sai, a kan maganar wani tushe wanda daga baya aka gano cewa ya zama mai ƙirƙirawa, CIA ta rufe tashar Sudan a ƙarshen wannan shekarar. A shekara ta 1998 Bin Laden ya yi yakin Amurka, kuma, a ranar 7 ga watan Agusta, ya kai hari a Tanzania da Nairobi
Ka yi haƙuri. A ranar 12 ga watan Oktoba, 2000, Al Qaeda ta kai harin bam a birnin. A shekarar 1947 lokacin da aka kafa CIA, akwai jami'ai 200 a cikin Clandestine Service. A shekara ta 2001, daga cikin ma'aikata 17,000 a CIA, akwai 1,000 a cikin Clandestine Service. Daga cikin 1,000 'yan kalilan ne suka karɓi ayyukan wahala. A farkon kwanakin shugabancin George W. Bush, barazanar Al Qaeda ta kasance a ko'ina a cikin bayanan shugabancin CIA na yau da kullun, amma yana iya zama batun yaron da ke kuka da kyarkeci. Hasashen hukumar ya kasance mummunan, amma ya ɗauki nauyi kaɗan, kuma kulawar Shugaban, da ma'aikatan tsaron sa suna wani wuri. CIA ta shirya kama wadanda ake zargi da zama mambobin Al Qaeda ta hanyar hadin gwiwa da hukumomin kasashen waje, amma CIA ba za ta iya cewa tabbatacce abin da tasirin wadannan kame-kame ya yi ba, kuma ba zai iya samun ingantaccen bayani daga wadanda aka kama ba. Shugaban ya tambayi CIA idan Al Qaeda na iya shirya hare-hare a Amurka. A ranar 6 ga watan Agusta, Bush ya karbi rahoto na yau da kullum tare da kanun labarai, ba bisa ga halin yanzu ba, ingantaccen hankali, "Al Qaeda ya ƙuduri aniyar kai hari a cikin Amurka" Amurkawa sun farautar Bin Laden tun 1996 kuma sun sami dama da yawa, amma ba Clinton ko Bush sun so su yi kasada da taka rawar gani a cikin wani makircin kisan gilla, kuma cikakkiyar dama ba ta taɓa faruwa ba ga wani mai ba da kariya wanda zai ba shi tabbacin da yake buƙata don ɗaukar nauyin. A wannan rana, Richard A. Clarke ya aika da mai ba da shawara kan harkokin tsaro na kasa Condoleezza Rice yana gargadin hadarin, da kuma nuna rashin amincewa da CIA.