Recent documents released by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) indicate that India was among the countries targeted by former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for potential attacks. This revelation sheds light on the global reach of bin Laden’s plans and highlights ongoing security concerns in the region.
The briefs cover a period starting during Bill Clinton’s presidency and continue into that of George W Bush. A third jet hit the Pentagon, while the fourth one, believed to have been targeting the White House or Congress, crashed into a Pennsylvania field after passengers fought back. The bundle of presidential intelligence briefs released by the CIA demonstrates that the intelligence agency had warned former US Presidents multiple times from 1998 to 2001 about a possible terrorist attack on the country.
The release of the briefs provides “unprecedented transparency on America’s most sensitive intelligence publication from the years before and the day after one of the darkest moments in our history,” the CIA said in a statement.
