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Speaking to a news agency former US president Bill Clinton said that he had ordered the capture and possible assassination of Osama bin Laden.
The report said Clinton had given the go-ahead for the clandestine operation following the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam -- attacks for which bin Laden has since been indicted in the United States.
"We did everything we could," Clinton has been quoted as saying in the report.
"I authorised the arrest and if necessary, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and we actually made contact with a group inside Afghanistan to do it. They were unsuccessful," he added.
The report also said that the Clinton administration had began training commandos for a possible ground assault aimed at capturing or killing bin Laden, but abandoned it after failing to get adequate intelligence and support from key countries.
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