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WASHINGTON When intelligence officials briefed President Donald Trump on the most worrisome terrorist threats during the first two years of his tenure, they regularly mentioned the names of the senior terror figures the CIA was working hardest to find and kill, including the leader of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri.
Trump would ultimately greenlight successful strikes on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Yemeni al Qaeda chief Qasim al-Rimi perhaps the most significant names on the CIA list of potential U.S. targets.
But he was more interested in a young and less influential figure much farther down the list, according to two people familiar with the briefings, because he recognized the name.
"He would say, 'I've never heard of any of these people. What about Hamza bin Laden?'" one former official said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-pushed-cia-to-find-kill-osama-bin-ladens-son-over-higher-priority-targets/ar-BB103rc8?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=hplocalnews
Is this part of Trump's Obama obsession?
empedocles
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(14,278 posts)lame54
(35,262 posts)I killed Bin Laden
Then the MSM can argue if that's true or not
Fox can verify it
Then Kelly Anne Conway can go on Chris Cuomo and brag about it unchallenged
They will love it at his Klan rallies