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A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber said Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11 2001 attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorist attack could doom the American economy.

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An American-born al-Qaida recruit has become one of the counter-terrorism world’s most valuable informants, giving investigators a rare look at al-Qaida’s day-to-day operations in a lawless region bordering Pakistan which US officials have struggled to infiltrate, investigators said.

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