“Two months after Osama bin Laden’s operatives blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in August 1998, Congress invited ten leading military, intelligence, and law enforcement experts to recommend changes in policy for preventing and punishing terrorism. After consulting the country’s top terrorism specialists, the National Commission on Terrorism published its report in June [7] 2000. The only advice offered on Afghanistan was to designate it a sponsor of terrorism and impose economic sanctions.”
– Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story, Page 255