Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171231:08:46:00
>> over the course of the 1990s a lot of terrorism threats were dealt with as law enforcement cases. the department of justice and the fbi would find their guy and they would prosecute him. it isn't that that wasn't essential, that strategy. it just meant that we weren't perceiving the threat as something bigger. >> this is the new face of terror, osama bin laden, the 39-year-old renegade son of a saudi billionaire, an islamic fundamentalist, elusive, mysterious. >> bin laden's academic training was m economics and public administration. so he brought the sensibilities of a businessman to terr...