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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BobbyBetc on 2025-07-01 00:58:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL That two days before 9/11 Parade Magazine ran a blurb about the FBI trying to “smoke out” Osama Bin Laden and “see clearly through the smoke” with matchbook advertisements, just as they had done after the 1993 WTC bombing