Posted on 07/23/2004 1:11:17 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials scrapped a 1999 plan to offer the Taliban a $250 million bribe to turn over Osama Bin Laden, fearing then-First Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would object to paying off the infamous women's rights abusers.Clinton had long criticized the Islamic regime in Afghanistan for covering women with burkas and denying them educations and jobs.
According to the final 9/11 commission report, Bill Clinton's administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban, paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes.
"Two senior State Department officials suggested asking the Saudis to offer the Taliban $250 million for Bin Laden," the report said, citing a May 1999 memo. But White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke "opposed ... a 'huge grant to a regime as heinous as the Taliban' and suggested that the idea might not seem attractive to either Secretary Albright or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - both critics of the Taliban's record on women's rights."
"Sen. Clinton was a vocal critic of the heinous Taliban regime well before 9/11," said her spokesman, Philippe Reines.
James Gordon Meek
Originally published on July 23, 2004
This is HUGH!!!
The Clinton Administration was paying $10-20 million per year to the Taliban for nothing???
This is pretty new to me. Is this Breaking News material???
Looks that way. Exactly WHAT did they get for from the Taliban the $$$???
Who the hell cared (or cares) what Hillary thinks. She should have been baking cookies and not interferring in U.S. foreign policy. This just goes to show you what kind of PW'd wimps inhabited the WH a just few years ago.
Nothing to see here. move along.
This just in: Abu Grabe prison abuse.
Bingo!
Indeed, hugh and series. If the Dems had this sort of stuff about President Bush it would be all over the media and they would have already made a "documentary" about it.
Was Berger removing and 'sanitizing' documents that had Hillary's handwriting on them??
Who has Hannity's email address??
It just keeps getting worse and worse.
It doesn't make me wonder because I know that she was running the country while "her husband" played. That is exactly what I tried to tell hundreds of people when the Clintons were running for President the first time. She still wants to be dictator of the United States. That power tasted pretty good and she'll do anything she can to get it back. ANYTHING!
She does wear the pants in their house.
Just in case he gave up on the DAILY NEWS
According to the final 9/11 commission report, Bill Clinton's administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban, paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes.
THERE'S THE STORY RIGHT THERE - Clinton helped fund Al Qaeda...
Odd, that this has never been mentioned until now. Could it be that the media decided for us that this wasn't important news, and it's just coming out now because the 9/11 report has been made public?
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