Judicial Watch released this Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Intelligence Information Report (IIR), declassified and released to Judicial Watch on October 30, 2004, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) open records request filed by Judicial Watch in January 2000, concerning the decision of the Clinton administration to bomb the al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, and suspected al Qaeda terrorist training camps in the vicinity of Khost, Afghanistan on August 20, 1998. The dual-site bombing operation was codenamed ȁCInfinite Reach.ȁD The bombing was reportedly in retaliation for the August 7, 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The DIA is derived from handwritten documents obtained through a classified intelligence project with the unclassified nickname ȁCSwift Knight.ȁD According to the report, the documents were written during the first two weeks of October 1998. The spellings, references and phrases in the report are verbatim transcriptions from the original handwritten document (e.g. Osama bin Laden [OBL] is referred to as ȁCUsam ben LadenȁD). The IIR provides basic biographical information concerning bin Laden and traces key points in his public, militant activities, resulting in the formation of al Qaeda.
The IIR includes language from the document that describes how al Qaeda envisions achieving their goals, including ȁCethnic cleansingȁD and ȁCcontrol over nuclear and biological weapons.ȁD An additional reference is made to ȁClatent penetration,ȁD a reference to so-called ȁCsleeper cells.ȁD A good deal of information concerning bin Ladenȁ9s and al Qaedaȁ9s efforts in Chechnya, the Caucasus, Crimea, and the Central Asian Republics is covered in the IIR.

Al Queda-Chechnya links.

Intelligence Information Report / Swift Knight - Usama Ben Laden's Current and Historical Activities, Oct 1998, released Oct 2004