Man `planned to kill Clinton'

NEW YORK - A man convicted of plotting to bomb US passenger jets told FBI agents he also planned to assassinate President Bill…

NEW YORK - A man convicted of plotting to bomb US passenger jets told FBI agents he also planned to assassinate President Bill Clinton with a missile or a bomb in Manila in 1994, the New York Dally News reported yesterday.

The newspaper said it had obtained a secret FBI report on Ramzi Ahmed Yousef's interviews with agents. Yousef was convicted along with two other radical Muslims in New York last week for plotting to bomb 12 airliners.

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