President Clinton said he told President Bush that Israeli-Palestinian peace should be one of his top three foreign-policy priorities. Clinton told CNN on Thursday that he told Bush during the transition in January 2001 that Osama bin Laden should be his top concern and that he regretted not capturing the terrorist chief during his own time in office.
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