The Al-Qaeda plot to kill Bill Clinton that history nearly forgot

WASHINGTON - Air Force One with then US President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton aboard was on its final approach to Manila on Nov 23, 1996, when their US Secret Service detail received alarming intelligence: An explosive device had been planted on the motorcade route into the Philippine capital. Acting swiftly, the agents switched to a back-up route...

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