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OK, there were discussions by late 1998 for the US govt to authorise specops to take out OBL in Afghanistan, which were however never acted upon due to fear of US casualties & collateral damage- therefore, the retaliations for the East African embassy bombings came in the form of cruise missile strikes instead. Now, though, WI Clinton had indeed authorised such SOF ops at that time to hunt down Osama ?
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