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Originally Posted by MattLarson
In 1996, when Clinton passed on taking Bin Laden, there was still one WTC bombing conspirator outstanding, and it would have been easy to get a court to hold Bin Laden as a material witness, if the effort had been made.
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By that point Al Qaeda had already formally declared war on the U.S. in an actual written binding document, and the group was headed up by Osama, that would have been sufficient grounds to charge him as a war criminal.