New documents reveal that British officials backed a plan to ‘whack’ Osama Bin Laden just months before 9/11.
Discussions about killing the Al Qaeda leader were happening in Downing Street before the hijackings Newly declassified documents reveal there was supportive talk about assassinating the Al Qaeda leader at the highest levels of government in December 2000.
Extremists also murdered 17 sailors in October 2020 when a bomb carried by a small boat detonated alongside a US navy vessel, the USS Cole. A note written by John Sawers, then a foreign policy advisor to Tony Blair, read: ‘We’re all in favour of whacking [Bin Laden] but we need a bit of notice and a chance to influence the timing.’
Mr Sawers, who went on to be head of MI6, wrote that the Americans didn’t ‘have a smoking gun’ proving Bin Laden’s responsibility for the USS Cole attack and that airstrikes would likely be postponed until the new president was sworn in.
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