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Transcript: BIN LADEN'S SUDAN LINK
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- August 27, 1998
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: To retaliate for the bombings of the U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the United States hit targets linked
to Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and Sudan.
From the Sudanese capital Khartoum, NPR's Eric Weiner charts the long
and often close relationship between bin Laden and Sudan.
ERIC WEINER, NPR REPORTER: Osama bin Laden and the government of
Sudan share some common ground. Both possess a strong belief in radical
Islam. Both have an equally strong dislike for the U.S.
And in the early 1990s, both found themselves in desperate need.
Bin Laden, stripped of his Saudi citizenship for trying to undermine
the Saudi royal ...