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This FBI file concerns the Bureau's criminal and intelligence work involving Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, including the investigation of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The released records include Interpol Red Notice and fugitive-broadcast material from 1998 to 2000, describing bin Laden as wanted on U.S. murder, conspiracy, and attack-on-a-U.S.-facility charges, as well as a separate Libyan murder allegation concerning two German nationals in 1994. FBI communications from 2000 describe coordination among field offices, access to al-Qaeda-related case files, and procedures for separating criminal investigative material from intelligence-derived information during the embassy-bombings prosecution. A partially released August 2001 communication records plans to debrief and polygraph an extraterritorial source who claimed to have met bin Laden, including consideration of a concealed data recorder for a future meeting; other pages are withheld as referrals.

Documents span: 1998-2001 | Released in 3 parts
Names in this file: Osama bin Laden, Muhammad Atef, Wadih El-Hage, Ali Mohamed, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil, Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, Faraj Mikhail Abdul-Fadeel Jibril
Subjects: al-Qaeda, U.S. embassy bombings, international fugitive search, Interpol, counterterrorism, FBI intelligence