THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                 September 18, 2000


                             PRESS BRIEFING
                                   BY
                              JOE LOCKHART

                    The James S. Brady Briefing Room


11:06 A.M. EDT


     Q    Joe, USA Today is reporting that the U.S. intelligence
officials have obtained a thousand-page instructional manual on how to
conduct terror.  Some say it may give the U.S. insight into Osama bin
Laden's tactics.  Do you have anything on that?

     MR. LOCKHART:  Well, I can't comment specifically on that report.
But I can say, as has been said before, that Osama bin Laden's
organization, and others, are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the
training techniques they use, which requires the kind of response that I
think you've seen from this government over the past few years.


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