We will not rest in our efforts to find who is responsible for this outrage, to pursue them and to punish them.

Anyone who attacks one American attacks every American and we protect and defend our own.

I'm not sure anything went wrong with the security plan.

What weren't wrong is that we lost a lot of wonderful people and we had a lot of people injured.

In June of 1996, a bombing in Saudi Arabia killed 19 American soldiers stationed in the kingdom.

The attack took place at an outpost into Iran on the East Coast, one of the US military installations

soon to be condemned in bin Laden's fatwas.

The Secretary of Defense William Perry arrived in Tehran days after a bombing left its threatening march.

The FBI's chief of counterterrorism, John O'Neill,

flew to the kingdom to investigate the murders.

What O'Neill found was the first of many instances where the full story of Osama bin Laden's

activities and connections was off limits.

Perry brought a three-pronged message pointed straight to the perpetrators.

Increased security,

anti-terrorism readiness and a firm commitment to Saudi U.S. relations.

Quote, O'Neill went to Saudi Arabia himself to convince King Fad

to get the Saudi authorities to cooperate.

But that was a lost cause because Saudi officials interrogated the principal suspects themselves,

while the FBI was relegated to collecting material evidence from the

bomb site. For O'Neill, who became obsessed with capturing bin Laden and

increasingly frustrated by his own country's behavior on the subject. All of the answers, all of the

clues allowing us to dismantle bin Laden's organization, O'Neill said, can be found in Saudi

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