Israel tried to kill Osama bin Laden in 1996, an Israeli newspaper claimed. Yediot Achronot reported Thursday that, five years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the United States, Mossad agents managed to recruit a woman who was close to the Saudi terrorist and ordered her to kill him. According to the report, the mission was aided by the confidante’s home country — which was not identified — but the country ended its assistance because of Israeli-Palestinian tensions, and the mission had to be scrapped. Danny Yatom, who was head of the Mossad at the time, declined to comment.
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