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[Weeks after this call, in January 2002, Lakhani travelled to the United States for the first of four face-to-face meetings with the informant. Within minutes of the start of this meeting - which was recorded on audio and videotape - Lakhani offered praise for Osama Bin Laden:] Bin Laden has straightened them somewhat.... He has straightened these idiots. ... did a very good thing.


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