It also said there were four times from late 1998 to 1999 when bin Laden possibly could have been targeted, once when he was near a hunting lodge in Afghanistan frequented by United Arab Emirates officials.
Tenet said it was unclear whether bin Laden was there and another complicating factor was that "you might have wiped out half the royal family in the UAE in the process, which I'm sure entered into everybody's calculation in all this."
